Stations Quotes - Page 8

• libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Land, Feelings

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.

  Suzanne Collins

  Camouflage, Faces, Painting

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.776, Scholastic Inc.

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• Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

  Charles Dickens

  Friday, Believe, Hero

  David Copperfield ch. 1 (1850)

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• Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Artist, Media, Color

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Book, Missing, Trunks

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “Journey to the River Sea”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

  Joanne Harris

  People, Waiting, Sitting

  Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.197, Random House

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• Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

  Hermann Hesse

  Perfection, Way, Strive

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

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• He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Strong, Lying, Passion

  Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aylmer Maude (1937). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: Anna Karénina, tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude”

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• I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Christian, Religious, Book

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “The Neon Bible”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Strong, Regret, Pain

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?” “You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. “Don’t kiss strange men in Penn Station.

  Libba Bray

  Kissing, Men, Long

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• Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

  Dean Koontz

  Journey, People, Car

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.240, Bantam

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• Life is the train and not the station.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life Is, Train

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• Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

  Tim Dorsey

  Growing Up, Kids, Gas Stations

  "Gator A-Go-Go: A Novel". Book by Tim Dorsey, March 9, 2010.

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• When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Christian, Wall, Dark

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• In the dime stores and bus stations
 People talk of situations
 Read books, repeat quotations
 Draw conclusions on the wall
 Some speak of the future
 My love she speaks softly
 She knows there’s no success like failure
 And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

  Bob Dylan

  Zero, Wall, Book

  Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

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• Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the “suspicious behavior” bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with “stupidly overpowerful dog” and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-­expenses-paid visit to your local police station.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dog, Winning, Police

  Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.2, Del Rey

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• I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search the train station for a serial rapist and I cover my face with a newspaper, wondering if maybe I did it in my sleep. The last thing I stole was an eight-track tape, but to this day I'm unable to enter a store without feeling like a shoplifter. It's all the anxiety with none of the free stuff.

  David Sedaris

  Sleep, Eight, Years

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.

  Maureen Johnson

  Wall, Numbers, Giving

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.132, Penguin

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• Their bedroom has always been our sanctuary. Sometimes at night we'll end up on their bed just talking. My dad will be snoring and Mia will say, "Turn around, Bobby, you're snoring," and he'll turn around and for a moment it'll be silent. Then he'll erupt into a massive snore and Luca and I will kill ourselves laughing and my dad will wake up and bark, "Get to bed!" and not even a second later he'll be snoring and we'll kill ourselves laughing again and Mia will say, "What is this? Grand Central Station?

  Melina Marchetta

  Dad, Night, Talking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.18, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Sorry, Virginia, Gas Stations

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• I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

  Marilyn Manson

  Numbers, People, Evil

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• Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Boards, Rubies

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.331, Macmillan

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• When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Track, Wife, Saws

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

  Maria Semple

  Crazy, Firsts, Kindergarten

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.11, Hachette UK

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