Vacationland Book Quotes & Sayings

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences ... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. — Queen Latifah

No man is a complete mystery except to himself. — Marcel Proust

For a brief, silly moment, I think he's going to kiss me, and then he turns and marches through the door. — Dannielle Wicks

Christ demands first place. There's no room on the throne of your heart for two gods. — Billy Graham

Every story has another story inside, but you don't usually get to read the inside one. It's deleted or torn up or maybe filed away before the story becomes a book ... — Linda Sue Park

Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union:
Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered. Now somebody has put a bullet in the brain of the occupant of 208, a yid who was calling himself Emanuel Lasker. — Michael Chabon

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people. — Billy Corgan

We all suffer ills at the hands of others; however, reactions to these injustices differ like night and day. Many seek to punish the world for their suffering, but some work hard to save the world from experiencing similar grief. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through. — Cynthia Ozick

Unfriending me when I didn't even know we were friends? It's like breaking wind when you're home alone. If I can't smell you, knock yourself out. — George Takei

I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so. — James Purdy

[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia . He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. — Henry A. Kissinger