"For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book."

-- Laura Furman

#Book Quotes #Littles Quotes #Void Quotes

“oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo? Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school." "Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from.”
“I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that.”
“I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.”
“The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.”
“I waited for my first kiss.”
“The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.”
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”
“Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.”

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