Skip Quotes
235 quotes by 216 authors
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I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of…
— James Frey
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I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how…
— Sylvia Plath
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You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel…
— Tamora Pierce
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On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove…
— Wendy Cope
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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or…
— Shane Claiborne
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Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow. “It’s not like Magnus’s party,†Isabelle reassured him. “Everything…
— Cassandra Clare
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I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a…
— Portia de Rossi
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You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Yes you're getting your tattoo." I threw my arms around Dad's neck. "Thank you!" "Hey," Mom said. "I'm the one who had to persuade him…
— Kelley Armstrong
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You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able…
— Gil Scott-Heron
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
— Alan Lightman
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A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
— Stephen King
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I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip
— David Levithan
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Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's…
— Laini Taylor
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What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your…
— Erica Jong
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Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through…
— Donald Miller
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I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of…
— Lionel Shriver
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In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend…
— Susanna Kaysen
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In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We…
— Ellen Hopkins
Who Wrote These Skip Quotes
216 authors contributed a total of 235 Skip Quotes, led by these top contributors: