Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.
The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.
Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand
He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.
You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?
The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light—grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.
When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!
A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.
If a gal reaches half an hour before for a date and then calls you saying that she is waiting Dude! Marry her! What you're thinking?
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
She half suspected that he had had been ordered by contract to look mouth-watering at all times. If he hadn't, it was really rude of him to persist in it. It was distracting.
If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey I’ll either be an outlaw, or I’ll be dead.
We’ll have sex all night. Half the morning too. And just when you think you can’t take anymore, we’ll go at it again.
It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.
I heard everything you said, listened to half, and agreed with a quarter. And 12.5% isn’t bad—if you’re collecting that in interest on money you lent out.
She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.
