Quotes of: Half-hours Keyword

Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.

Mystic River

A half a hole is still a whole hole. Let that be a lesson in love.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.

Liefde in tijden van cholera

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.

Lark Rise to Candleford

Yes, my style sucks. But at least I didn't bowl half a game with a nacho stuck to my ass.

Lovely Vicious

If the British had fought half as well as this one kissed, she thought, the Americas would still be a colony.

Saving Persephone

Shared, the pain was double, but only half so crippling. She couldn't bring herself to wish for the strenght to stand alone.

Tides

I didn't dare put down the staff with Etienne popping in and out like a half-burned, bloodsucking whack-a-mole.

Pirate's Alley

This is our life now: slaving away in thankless, monotonous jobs and spending half our salaries on fattening food.

Pink Shoes

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Poseidon's Wake

The legend of Sam, the homosexual hermaphrodite. (The impossibility is half possible!)

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

Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces

Together We Are Spiders

I was warned about you, you know." And with that half-smile that wrecked me, Noah said, "But you're here anyway.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

You have to remember, William. It may make the difference between freedom and half a lifetime in prison.

Unreasonable Force

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

The Wise Man's Fear

for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

Wuthering Heights

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

White Oleander

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi

A can’t in a can—it’s carbonated failure that’s ready to drink. It tastes like the back half of love.

Xazaqazax

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

George Saunders

I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.

Lleyton Hewitt