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“The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“We know you stood guard duty at the White House, Reuben. We have film of you urinating behind the bushes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Worm Holes

“Yamamoto sensed a feeling of culmination about the huge success of the first strike, and the same incisive intuition that guided his brilliant moves at the gaming tables told him what the next move on the bridge of Akagi would be. In (Vice Admiral) Nagumo he knew his man. Nagumo had never been committed to the Pearl Harbor mission. He had not been Yamamoto’s choice to command the Striking Force; his assignment was the decision of the Navy Ministry in Tokyo, based on seniority. While the exultation of the officers and sailors on his staff swirled around him, Yamamoto sat quietly. Finally, he fixed a steely gaze on his chief of staff, and in a low, intense voice: “Admiral Nagumo is going to withdraw.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“I don’t belong to anyone. I make my own choices."
"And you’re with Adrian," said Dimitri.
"But I was meant for you.”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“antes de darme cuenta de que era para comprar boletos de Lotto. ¿Ha visto usted esas filas? La próxima vez que las vea, fíjese en las personas. Darryl y su hermano Darryl. Estas no son personas ricas, ni inteligentes. La lotería es un impuesto a la gente pobre y las personas que no pueden sacar cuentas. La gente rica y la gente inteligente estarían en la fila si la lotería fuese un verdadero instrumento para crear riqueza, pero lo cierto es que la lotería es un robo instituido por nuestro gobierno.”
― Dave Ramsey, La transformación total de su dinero: Un plan efectivo para alcanzar bienestar económico

“Quem, como ele, tinha sobrevivido ao próprio nascimento no lixo não se deixava expulsar tão facilmente do mundo. Era capaz de comer sopa aguada dias e dias, sobrevivia com o leite mais diluído, suportava os legumes e as carnes mais podres. Ao longo da infância, sobreviveu ao sarampo, disenteria, varicela, cólera, a uma queda de seis metros num poço e a queimadura no peito com água fervente. É verdade que trazia disso cicatrizes, arranhões, feridas e um pé meio aleijado que o fazia capengar, mas sobreviveu. Era duro como uma bactéria resistente e auto-suficiente como um carrapato colado numa árvore, que vive de uma gotinha de sangue sugada ano passado. Precisava de um mínimo de alimentação e vestimenta para o corpo. Para a alma, não precisava de nada. Calor humano, dedicação, delicadeza, amor �� ou seja lá como se chamam todas as coisas que dizem que uma criança precisa �� eram completamente dispensáveis para o menino Grenouille. Ou então, assim nos parece, ele as tinha tornado dispensáveis simplesmente para poder sobreviver. O grito depois do seu nascimento, o grito sob a mesa de limpar peixe, o grito com que ele se tinha feito notar e levado a mãe ao cadafalso, não fora um grito instintivo de compaixão e amor. Fora bem pesado, quase se poderia dizer um grito maduramente pensado e pesado, com que o recém-nascido se decidira contra o amor e, mesmo assim, a favor da vida. Nas circunstâncias, isto era possível sem aquilo, e, se a criança tivesse exigido ambos, então teria, sem dúvida, fenecido miseramente. Também teria podido, no entanto, escolher naquela ocasião a segunda possibilidade que lhe estava aberta, calando e legando o caminho do nascimento para a morte sem esse desvio pela vida, e assim teria poupado a si e ao mundo uma porção de desgraças. Mas, para se omitir tão humildemente, teria sido necessário um mínimo de gentileza inata, e isto Grenouille não possuía. Foi um monstro desde o começo. Ele se decidiu em favor da vida por pura teimosia e maldade.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“mascara-ing her eyelashes with her mouth wide open (necessity of open mouth during mascara application great unexplained mystery of nature). “Don’t”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

“The final sound of the rifle shot bounced around the lake.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be,�� Elizabeth Edwards wrote of her marriage to U.S. Sen. John Edwards. When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading became “the glue�� that kept them together.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

“People rarely search for bodies in ceilings��”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

“Throughout the process, you must show gratitude to those who have helped you get to where you are.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“No,�� said the doctor. “It’s something I’ve never seen before. Something I don’t think anyone has seen before.��  ”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

“Lots of things went into creating a monster, but nothing had prepared her for actually being caught by one.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

“I believe the red stone was kept under lock and key in the dungeon far below Aldene Castle. I know that in 1507, when the Eldest visited Aldene, he was concerned about something dangerous that was held in Aldene’s dungeon.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

“God is the Cure, Love is the Answer”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, God is the Cure, Love is the Answer : A Memoir

“You don’t think he’s our man?�� asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information.
“I didn’t say that,�� Ramsbottom said. “In fact he is behaving very cautiously indeed, which makes me feel very suspicious.��
“He has probably figured out that you are following him,�� said Adam. “One can hardly fail to notice you hanging around all the time.��
“That may be so,�� said Ramsbottom.
“Can’t you get a disguise or something?�� asked Adam. “So he does not recognise you.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.”
― Richard Dawkins

“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate.”
― Harold Bloom, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

“you still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want”
― S.E. Hinton

“What makes men defend their territories with might and violence?”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

“Peanut was a hamster. He was furry, had four legs, a big tummy and his favourite food was, you guessed it, peanuts”
― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster

“The children glanced at her for a moment but then kept their heads down and eyes on their food. They were used to ignoring the drama that happened right in front of them. No one spoke. Exhaustion had set in, mentally and physically.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

“Inseparable as sibs—strained as a couple.”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

“How did I become President?
I began by setting an example, hanging out my own dirty laundry in front of Village Earth right from the start. Every ugly little life secret became a matter of public record. Of course, that included sordid love-life details.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

“Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother.  She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze.  She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

“The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece