Short Quotes

One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.

Sometimes I help him out and sometimes he helps me out, and sometimes he tries to push me through the wall. (Dark City Lights)

I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home.

In a world spoiled by the obituary of attention and the dormancy of empathy, people are coming up short of authentic emotion. (“The upper lip must never tremble”)

Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.

running with sharp knivesnever got me so farbut running with youseemed lovely

Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

Sometimes the grass gets mowedat the house where the writer lives.

I think I’ll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that’s fine. I have to make my peace with that.

I tend to be drawn to people who are similar. Very independent. And the ones who aren't, it doesn't work. It doesn't last. I’m drawn to quiet people – certainly I am now.

People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don’t do that.

That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (“Crépuscule du désir”)

God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life

Never abbreviate your dreams. Only short-hand people always do that. Their punishment is that they can't stretch far, further and forward into the future. Dream only big dreams!

she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.

Because zombies can’t go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale.

She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.

Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing.

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin.

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.

Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President.

There was something vaguely sad about the rock. It was as old as it looked, standing weathered and lonely amidst the stretch of sand, and its thoughts were quiet as it listened to the waves.

Shaw Centre has restaurants on the fourth floor, where the ACS boy can pull chairs out for her. Girls love this because no one else does it for them, especially not those sotong RI boys.

Dear family, I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine

Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven.

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?

How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of the Army's clean streets and walks.

Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.

Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.

The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.

I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold." (Humans)

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from battles between jolly green giants.

He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of what a fine art it was--if you couldn't run a machine. A duel was under way.

Don't ruin a good story with the facts.

Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.

Life is too short to spend it living for mundane things

Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.

In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success

Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.

If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell.

One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but one fleeting glance.

Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.