Quotes of: Freshman-year Keyword

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

If I grew an inch a day, in 365 days I’d be one year tall. I’d be over three basketball hoops high, but I’d still only be able to palm a Sunday once a year.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If politicians lived to be only 30-years-old before dying, that’d still be 30 years too long.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just

Twelve Years a Slave

Are there any sleeping jobs, because I have a lot of experience. Years and years, actually. And with on the job training, I can show up to work tired.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I have been writing for about eleven years now. I went from elfish to elephantish, and in another eleven years, I hope to be Elford.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I’ve been writing for about eleven years. I went from elfish to elephantish, and in another eleven years I hope to be Levin.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

The Year of Secret Assignments

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection

But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.

The Year of the Flood

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

The Year of the Flood

Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.

The Year of the Flood

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

A Year of Blind Dates: A Single Girl's Search for "The One"

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself.

The Year of Magical Thinking

There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.

A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

The Year of Magical Thinking