Quotes of: Roman-polanski Keyword

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

Horseradish

Seattle? With Caine? In a hotel? I’d either kill him or screw him again. “Fuck.” “Alexa, the speakerphone is on,” Caine’s amused voice sounded from my desk. Oh, balls.

Hero

Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.

How to Kill a Rock Star

In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.

How to Kill a Rock Star

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

How to Talk to a Widower

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

The Inner Circle

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

The Inner Circle

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

The Inner Circle

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

The Inner Circle

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

I Am Pilgrim

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.

I'll Be There

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Jaws

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

Rusty String Quartet

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

The Reptile Room

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.

The Story of Lucy Gault

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

Straight A at Stanford and on to Harvard