Undertown Book Quotes & Sayings

There are no coincidences. Only doors you didn't have the courage to walk through. only blind spots you weren't brave enough to see. Only tones you refused to admit you could hear. — Sara Gran

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive. — Samuel R. Delany

Don't move, he breathed, softer than ever. Logan slowly wrapped his fingers around my hand. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child. — E. M. Forster

but the officers danced assiduously, especially one of them who had spent six weeks in Paris, where he had mastered various daring interjections of the kind of - 'zut,' 'Ah, fichtr-re,' 'pst, pst, mon bibi,' and such. He pronounced them to perfection with genuine Parisian chic, and at the same time he said 'si j'aurais' for 'si j'avais,' 'absolument' in the sense of 'absolutely,' expressed himself, in fact, in that Great Russo-French jargon which the French ridicule so when they have no reason for assuring us that we speak French like angels, 'comme des anges. — Ivan Turgenev

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. — Cleopatra

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. — Michael Silverblatt

The guy said, "Hop in the back." He craned around in his seat and batted stray items aside. Reacher opened the door and slid in and used his hip to finish the job. He closed the door and the woman hit the gas and they took off, cruising easy through the last thirty-some miles of America. — Lee Child

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. — Philip Johnson

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. — Robert Breault

Then I bring my lips very gently to hers and
without biting
let the whole world disappear into the dark magic of her mouth. — Lauren McLaughlin

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan