Books Quote by Paolo Bacigalupi Download Open image ““He was going to drown, but hey, he could read.”” — Paolo Bacigalupi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“His head was barely above water, and he’d never welcomed drowning so much in his whole damn life.” — Sydney Somers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she woke up speaking his name. Sometimes she wondered how it were possible to be so far from the sea and still feel… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“Life is full of drowning people, reading and willing to drown you, too.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“Swimming was the last thing I wanted to do. Drowning him? Maybe.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“He hadn't realized how much it could mean, having someone to talk to like that; he hadn't realized that it could be a kind… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“And there he was, dead. He had finally succumbed to the exhaustion, no longer could he tread the waters of the sea inside him,… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Maybe, just like her, he needed to drown out all that was wrong, all that was thrown at him, and to check out for… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“At the time, he told his children to watch themselves, to understand that the tides of conservatism came and went and if they could… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“Doctor Mahfouz was always yammering on about how everyone had humanity in them. From Mahlia’s experience, the doctor was sliding high, but now, as… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power. — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“Believing is for Santa Claus, right? It's for Tooth Fairies. It's for your boyfriend when he says he's never met anyone like you and… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans. — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“Maybe it will die on its own, a hopeful voice whispered, but the general suppressed the thought. Wishes were for victims.” — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
