I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
Bagheera: Now, while you create a disturbance, I'll rescue Mowgli. Got that? Baloo: [dancing away] I'm gone, man. Solid gone. Bagheera: Not yet, Baloo!
Lenny: [to Angie] You ever wanna get fucked, let me know. [Patrick pistol-whips Lenny in the face] Patrick Kenzie: How's that, motherfucker? Now you know.
Dottie: [to Angie] I remember you from high school. I see you're still a little conceited, huh?
Patrick Kenzie: We're just trying to help, captain. Capt. Jack Doyle: Look, I don't care who does it. I just want it done.
I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun.
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
As to my mouth, of all my features, I wish I could possess my mouth again, just as it had been before the fire. I had my mother’s lips, generous below and above; and what kissing I had practiced, mainly on my hand or on a lonely pig, had convinced ...
Time dims memory. But not that kind. Somewhere in a corner of the brain, one little cell never forgets. It keeps the song that, heard again, recreates the room, the person, the moment. It preserves the phrase or the laugh or the gesture that resurrec...
Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to s...
It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery impossible; and to sit and count the dreary hours through long, long, nights - such nights as only watchers by the bed of sickness know. It ch...
We are all a long time dead.
It is a long road that has no turning.
Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone.
A contented ass enjoys a long life.
We all long for something. Midgets long to be long, but I long to belong.
The memories of one's youth make for long, long thoughts.
It is a long day, a day without bread.
A wolf's repentance died a long time ago.
Slow fires will smolder for a long time.
A careful hyena lives a long time.
