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- Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this…
- I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in…
- We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down…
- Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
- Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you and you're so…
- I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back…
- I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf…
- He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon…
- As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but…
- But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was…
- …because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people…
- You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and…
- Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth…
- I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile…
- Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle - oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going…
- The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our…
- I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and…
- At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated…
- Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be…
- The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended…
More Down Quotes
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell