Contemporary-comedy Quote by Molly Harper

“He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out here in…

— T.C. Boyle

“He had live long enough to know there was a little scumbag in everyone, but it didn’t help much when you had to take…

— Stephen King

“It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have…

— Shirley Jackson

“He asked about the newspaper strike, and true to form, he couldn't understand why both parties didn't simply communicate with each other and solve…

— Mitch Albom

“Didn’t he have to admit, begrudgingly, that in some extra-perverse corner of his brain the idea of having to be out of town before…

— Poppy Z. Brite

“Not only was there no traffic but the rain came down in buckets and I had no shelter. I had to run under some…

— Jack Kerouac

“For a moment I felt a vicious hatred for him and his quiet ways, his mundane stroll through the summer, his ordinariness, the banality…

— Colum McCann

“These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up…

— T.C. Boyle

“He was wealthy third generation Irish landowner arrogant. And where the hell did he even get a motorcycle out here?”

— Callie Hart

“As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The big question was, what all was this society up to? They’d certainly been in and out of his office, as well as accidently…

— Kirsten Fullmer

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown