True Quotes

“The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.”
― Phoebe Stone

“Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“But if there was a protocol for how to say goodbye to your newly ex-boyfriend's brother, right after you kissed him and probably sent your ex into the arms of his willing ex-girlfriend, I didn't know what it was.”
― Rachel Vincent, Reaper

“...You know something, don't you?"
"I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific."
"Just answer the question."
"True/false or multiple choice?”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

“الصديقان النموذجيان هما كزوج من القنافذ.. يتعاطفان ويتعاونان ويتلازمان ويتقاربان .. ولكن لا يذوبان في بعضهما لأن كل واحد له درقة من الأشواك تحميه من أن يقتحم عليه الآخر خصوصيته وسريته وينتهك وحدانية نفسه وقدسية استقلاله .”
― مصطفى محمود, يوميات نص الليل

“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?”
― paul hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’
‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)
‘And?’
‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“إن ضغط الدم .. والقلق .. والأرق .. الذي يصيبني من الحقائق أفضل من الخنوثة والتراخي والفتور الذي يصيبني من التطان والتفاؤل .
أنه تطامن يربي الشحم على قلبي وشعوري .. ويميتني بالسكتة لأقل خيبة أمل .. ولأتفه خبر غير متوقع .. وكل الأخبار في هذه الحالة غير متوقعة .”
― مصطفى محمود, يوميات نص الليل

“I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference.”
― Nicci French, The Red Room

“Hearts know nothing of time-not age or length of acquaintance. They know only what they need.”
― Jayne Rylon, Driven

“He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and F2F with him.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.”
― Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

“You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen.”
― steven redhead, The Solution

“A true believer is a danger to humanity.”
― Al Jaffee

“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.”
― Val Edward Simone

“Life is not a true or false question.”
― Rebecca McKinsey

“To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.”
― Val Edward Simone

“Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires.”
― Steven Redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality

“Ain’t nothing wrong with a little crew love!” True mocked her.”
― K'wan

“The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i am. And i'm here right now, so what are we going to do about it? -Adam Cayhall-”
― John Grisham