Six Quotes - Page 4

• Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.

  Mira Grant

  Brother, Years, Ideas

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

  Robin McKinley

  Book, Reading, Needs

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• I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire. Her fingers ran through my sideburns and into my hair before linking around my neck, alive and cool on my warm skin. I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life, my mind didn’t wander to compose a song lyric or store the moment for later reflection. For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else. -Sam

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Song, Kissing, Reflection

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• Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a butterfly caught in amber, a cat's eye shell, a bolt of lightning forged from the heart of a falling star, and the flower of the rue plant, herb of grace. The queen gave each of her six children one of the charms as their lucky talisman, but ever since the chain of charms was broken, the gypsies had been dogged with misfortune.

  Kate Forsyth

  Horse, Queens, Stars

  Kate Forsyth (2007). “The Gypsy Crown: Chain of Charms 1”, Pan Australia

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• Since I’ve known you, you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I’ve known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I’m in love with.

  Megan McCafferty

  Saying Goodbye, Self, Years

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.349, Broadway Books

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• In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.

  Neal Shusterman

  Years, Squirrels, Elements

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

  Neal Shusterman

  Stars, Sky, Tuesday

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat.

  Rick Riordan

  Eight, Sweat, Littles

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• They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

  Tennessee Williams

  Block, Desire, Fields

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 1 (1947)

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• Waitress!" Hedge called. "Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Espresso, Guy

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• Plus, I was about to spend six weeks with Christian Ozera. He was sarcastic, difficult, and made jokes about everything. Actually, he was a lot like me. It was going to be a long six weeks.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Sarcastic, Long

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.374, Penguin

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• While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Recovery, Humor

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!

  J. K. Rowling

  Together, Wow, Potters

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.52, Pottermore

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• As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Long, House

  Edith Wharton (2006). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, OUP Oxford

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• Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

  Lisi Harrison

  Sweat, Feet, Feelings

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• It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

  John W. Gardner

  Children, Age, Easy

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• There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

  Cyril Connolly

  Party, Book, Writing

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• The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go. 3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way 4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others 5. Persist, if necessary 6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.

  Deb Caletti

  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

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• What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

  Isaac Asimov

  Six Months, Type, Faster

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• I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Twenties, Letters, Knees

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.9, Diderot Publishing

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• I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

  J. D. Salinger

  God, Children, Drinking

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• You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, Ideas, Sound

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

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• I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ocean, Thinking, Records

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• Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Long, Waiting

  Louisa May Alcott (1871). “Little women, and Good wives, by the author of 'An old-fashioned girl'.”

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• Once or twice a week I would set my alarm for six A.M. so I could get up and plug in Hot Stix...I would study the curls in the mirror, impressed with both the appliance and my newfound ability to use it. Then, without fail, at the last second before leaving for school, I would ask myself, "Am I supposed to brush it out or leave it?" Why could I never remember" That feeling of "I'm pretty sure this next step is wrong, but I'm just gonna do it anyway" is part of the same set of instincts that makes me such a great cook.

  Tina Fey

  School, Mirrors, Feelings

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