Quotes of: Paper Keyword

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive.

Ron Silver

Put all your pain on a piece of paper, write it all down, every experience, every ache, every hurtful moment. Then take a match, and set fire to that piece of paper. All the hurt you have inside you is burning just as it burnt inside of you, until it...

The Forgotten Tale of Larsa

Right there in that room, listening to the tape Laura gave me, I decided that I wanted something more than what I’d allowed myself to become. Listening to the voices and piano notes fade in and out, I decided that I wanted to be happy. If I had to ...

Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. A...

After Dark

She heard the zip of his pants, and expected him to step away from her, leave her alone in the bathroom to pull herself together. Instead, his hands were very gentle as he moved her out of the way, running water into the tiny sink. And then his hands...

Ice Blue

I leave her to chemically combust and find Wren in the student council office, filling out extremely interesting paperwork. He’s buried behind piles of the stuff. I can barely see tufts of his blonde hair poking out. I reach into the paperwork pile...

Lovely Vicious

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, -- he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend: this fi...

Sonnets from the Portuguese

We to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they . Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered criticism. It's wo...

This Side of Paradise

He loved physical books with the same avidity other people loved horses or wine or prog rock. He'd never really warmed to ebooks because they seemed to reduce a book to a computer file, and computer files were disposable things, things you never real...

Patrick Ness

Miss Stephanie Crawford: There's a maniac lives there and he's dangerous... I was standing in my yard one day when his Mama come out yelling, 'He's killin' us all.' Turned out that Boo was sitting in the living room cutting up the paper for his scrap...

To Kill a Mockingbird

I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a current through the tube, and I noticed a peculiar black line across the paper. ... The eff...

Wilhelm Röntgen

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

You think he has some bomb defusing MacGyver contraption cooked up that involves lube, condoms, and a paper clip?

Double Shot Cappuccino

Having your head in the clouds is not a bad thing... as long as you take advantage of the inspiration you find while you're there.

Dreams on Paper

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

Dans un mois, dans un an

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

The Eyre Affair

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

…secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink.

Elegance

The stench that surrounded me suggested that the tarp over my face had been previously used either to transport fertiliser or as toilet paper.

A Girl Named Digit

Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!

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