Haruki Murakami - “When I first met you I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time running away for all you're worth. #QuoteBot

Jack Kerouac - “His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line. #QuoteBot

Georges Perec - “Stellen Sie Ihrem Kaffeelöffel Fragen. Was ist hinter der Tapete? Wie viele Bewegungen sind notwendig, um eine Telefonnummer zu wählen? Warum? (S. 8) #QuoteBot

Richard P. Feynman - “Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. #QuoteBot

Sherrilyn Kenyon - “Remember. Make him cry uncle. Cry uncle, my posterior. I'm going to make him cry like a girl who broke her mom's designer heels at the prom. #QuoteBot

Michael Connelly - “Everybody is looking for redemption. For something. #QuoteBot

Alain de Botton - “The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. #QuoteBot

Meg Cabot - “I'm going to fall in love with someone else just as soon as I can. I swear. But in the meantime, is it so wrong that I enjoy his company? #QuoteBot

Elizabeth Gilbert - “for all my days, as a raft against the winds and sorrows of the world. Whosoever wishes to board my raft may do so. I do not force anyone to come aboard, you see, but how can I abandon the raft? My good #QuoteBot

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez - “El marqués se demoró en el recuento de otras mentiras de la hija, no con disgusto sino con cierto orgullo de padre. «Quizás vaya a ser poeta», dijo. Abrenuncio no admitió que la mentira fuera una condición de las artes. #QuoteBot

Frank Herbert - “The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: #QuoteBot

J.R.R. Tolkien - “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. #QuoteBot

Megan Whalen Turner - “Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you. #QuoteBot

Francine Rivers - “God does not abandon men, my son. Men abandon God. #QuoteBot

James S.A. Corey - “Amazing how much we’ve managed to do, considering how we’re doing it all with jumped-up social primates and evolutionary behaviors from the Pleistocene. #QuoteBot

Susan Cain - “He also suggests “No-Talk Thursdays,” one day a week in which employees aren’t allowed to speak to each other. #QuoteBot

Nicholas Sparks - “Why study or try to change the world on a Friday afternoon when you could be out enjoying the sun? #QuoteBot

Ilona Andrews - “Maybe I should roll down the window to let some of the sexual tension out. #QuoteBot

Erik Larson - “expected, well suited to Germany’s guerrilla #QuoteBot

Mary Pipher - “culture doesn’t make it easy to sort through this issue. #QuoteBot

Jack London - “Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they. #QuoteBot

John Fowles - “I remember later he said (Professor Higgins again), you don’t really stand a dog’s chance anyhow. You’re too pretty. The art of love’s your line: not the love of art. #QuoteBot

Holly Black - “She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake. #QuoteBot

Francesca Lia Block - “She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary – and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud. #QuoteBot

Mary Burton - “tape and handed her the water #QuoteBot

Fernando Pessoa - “Ser novo é não ser velho. Ser velho é ter opiniões. Ser novo é não querer saber de opiniões para nada. #QuoteBot

P.D. James - “History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. #QuoteBot

Virginia Woolf - “Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. #QuoteBot

Haruki Murakami - “Tolstoy’s famous line, all happiness is alike, but each pain is painful in its own way. #QuoteBot

James Salter - “How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others? #QuoteBot