Saturday, March 30, 2013

Bells

And some say the soul of the city's the toll of the bells...

- CLOPIN, THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Take

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand...nor look through the eyes of the dead...nor feed on the specters in books.

- SONG OF MYSELF BY WALT WHITMAN; PG 116 OF PAPER TOWNS BY JOHN GREEN

Friday, March 22, 2013

Beds

A different bed can bring different dreams...

- THE PENDERWICKS AT POINT MOUETTE BY JEANNE BIRDSALL, PG 30

Friday, March 15, 2013

Disease

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted and invariably fatal.

- NEIL GAIMAN

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Okay

Whoa, whoa, time out! Let me get this straight. You know her, she knows you, but she wants to eat him, and...everybody's okay with this?

- TIMON, THE LION KING

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Mothers

Mothers can be in such denial.

- BRYCE LOSKI, FLIPPED BY WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN, PG 171

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Bounce

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover
I must have you!'

- THOMAS PARKE D'INVILLIERS, THE GREAT GATSBY BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Thousands

You have had quite an influence on me. Which is amazing, because I have dated thousands of women, and - *sees the look on Tiana's face* - well, no, like, two, three - just other woman -

- NAVEEN, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

Friday, March 8, 2013

Fool

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

- LIZA HEMPSTOCK, THE GRAVEYARD BOOK BY NEIL GAIMAN, PG 202

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Math

Indie says math is beautiful, but I think we both know he is deluded.

- TWITTER.COM/ROSE CASSON, 7 MAY

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Private

"Great writers need their privacy."
"As do chrysanthemums."
"Yes." Jane didn't think it was the same thing at all.

- THE PENDERWICKS ON GARDAM STREET BY JEANNE BIRDSALL, PG 180

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Ugly

I was planning to be the ugliest kid in the world, but you're already wearing the costume.

- MATT MCGUIRE, LIZZIE MCGUIRE: NIGHT OF THE DAY OF THE DEAD

Saturday, March 2, 2013

If

...and if you do, then you're my friend
and if you don't, then you're my foe
and if you are a deity of any sort, then please don't go...

- NE ME QUITTE PAS, REGINA SPEKTOR

Friday, March 1, 2013

Safe

Many times she'd imagined him wondering aloud what had ever happened to his Bruins puck, and she would be able to say, Why, Tommy, I've kept it safe for you all this time.

- THE PENDERWICKS ON GARDAM STREET BY JEANNE BIRDSALL, PG 57