book-quotes

It's time for everybody to start becoming conscious of their conscience.

I yearned for the woman who could bring me to my knees then raise me up again, making me stronger than before.

He stood there watching for a moment, not able to move. Even with her mascara running down her face and her hair beginning to frizz, she was still by far the most beautiful girl he__ ever laid eyes on. It was quite simple, wasn__ it? This great affection he had for Olivia was so overwhelming he chose to walk away instead of being brutally honest with himself.

Dear girl with the red scarf,People will come and go in our lives. Most of them we won__ give a second thought to as soon as the door closes behind them. But I had always imagined that you would leave the deepest, everlasting mark.-Mr. Universe.

Dear girl with the red scarf,Love was never meant to be conquered. You have to surrender to it.Trust me, after all, I am Mr. Universe. _

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

Do you remember the time, Mike,_ Jeremy laughed, __hat you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one__ memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

If I'll be funnier than this, I'll become a joke.

You cannot know what light isif you have not experienced darkness.How could you know what happiness feels likeif you know not what it means to be sad?Right does not exist without wrongHate exists because there is love.You are either driven by fear or love.To love is not to fear.It is to be godly.

My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this!

Now smiling had been something almost alien to me just a few weeks ago. But over this short period of time, I had rediscovered this art thanks to that noble emotion of love. Joy that had been bottled up inside since childhood now overcame me from deep within just like the healing water reaching folks at hot springs from regions deep below the surface.

Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough

You know what?_ he whispered, out of breath, __ou__e about to be in a whole lot of trouble. We probably better go.

It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I__ just a number. I__ a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. I__ seen as crazy or insane, but it doesn__ matter. I know I am bigger than my suffering.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult.And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup.Because, somehow, along the way, we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals _ or just good ideas.And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.