Barbara Kingsolver - “About how your kids aren’t really yours, they’re just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you’ll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. #QuoteBot

Carolyn Meyer - “If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.” ― #QuoteBot

Tom Walsh - “Let’s not judge others for chances that they’ve not had—in fact, let’s not judge them at all.  Let’s accept them right now for who they are #QuoteBot

Donald Barthelme - “The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently. #QuoteBot

Federico García Lorca - “My silk heart’s filled with lights, lost bells, lilies and bees, and I’ll go far, further than these mountains, further than the seas, close to the stars and I’ll say to Christ, Lord, give me back the child’s soul I once had #QuoteBot

Connie Willis - “Translated ‘Non omnia possumus omnus’ as ‘No possums allowed on the omnibus. #QuoteBot

Dante Alighieri - “They yearn for what they fear for. #QuoteBot

Philippa Gregory - “She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be “that poor Mrs. Fool” until the day he dies. #QuoteBot

Barry Schwartz - “Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life. #QuoteBot

Jonathan Franzen - “Most of the lights were burning brightly, but near the center of the spool was a patch of unlit bulbs—a substantia nigra deep inside the tangle. #QuoteBot

Daphne du Maurier - “Good pictures, good furniture and fittings, are all sound investments. #QuoteBot

John Irving - “What woman wants to hear someone say what her husband is thinking? What guy is going to be happy hearing what’s on his wife’s mind? #QuoteBot

Stephenie Meyer - “Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks. #QuoteBot

Ford Madox Ford - “Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists.” ― #QuoteBot

Kay Redfield Jamison - “What in the hell are you doing running around the parking lot at this hour?” he asked. A not unreasonable question. #QuoteBot

Yann Martel - “Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals? #QuoteBot

Margaret Mitchell - “A frost lay over all her emotions and she thought that she would never feel anything warmly again. #QuoteBot

Jim Butcher - “Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. #QuoteBot

Cassandra Clare - “If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me #QuoteBot

Linda howard - “Payback was always hell, wasn't it? #QuoteBot

Cormac McCarthy - “Death is what the living carry with them. #QuoteBot

Thomas Sowell - “Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others. #QuoteBot

William Golding - “If you don't change your hairstyle because it's mostly fallen out and you don't shave, you've no cause to go chasing yourself in a mirror. #QuoteBot

Marjane Satrapi - “I am the last prophet. A woman? #QuoteBot

M.G. Lord - “Barbie as a class role model, far more than Barbie as a gender role model, may, in fact, be the linchpin of many mothers' continued misgivings about her. #QuoteBot

Gregory Maguire - “O beautiful, to make escape And leave this world behind. Had I to stay another day I'd lose my fucking mind! #QuoteBot

David Mitchell - “Will I be some kid’s dad one day? Are any future people lurking deep inside mine?...Which girl’s carrying the other half of my kid, deep in those intricate loops? What’s she doing right now? What’s her name? #QuoteBot

Neil Strauss - “One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make. #QuoteBot

Kim Stanley Robinson - “I must trust my spacesuit not to fail. And i must remember, if i can, that really we are always in a spacesuit of one sort or another. We just don't usually see it so clearly. #QuoteBot

David McRaney - “THE MISCONCEPTION: The larger the consensus, the more likely it is correct. THE TRUTH: A belief is not more likely to be accurate just because many people share it. #QuoteBot

Chuck Palahniuk - “Por mucha bendición que haya, o talento, o tecnología, siempre podemos encontrar la forma de cagarla #QuoteBot

Tamora Pierce - “When in doubt," the mage Numair Salmalin had taught the pages, "Shoot the wizard. #QuoteBot

D.B.C. Pierre - “რო­გორ გინ­და, სი­სუფ­თა­ვე­ზე იფიქ­რო, რო­ცა თა­ვი­დან ფეხებამდე ქაქ­ში ხარ ამოს­ვრი­ლი?! #QuoteBot

Anaïs Nin - “For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them. #QuoteBot

Jess Walter - “He was part of a ruined generation of young men coddled by their parents -by their mothers especially- raised on unearned self-esteem, in a bubble of overaffection, in a sad incubator of phony achievement. #QuoteBot

Daphne du Maurier - “It was some personal friend of the landlord’s, who had no wish to meddle in his evening’s business, and would not show himself even to the landlord’s wife. #QuoteBot

William T. Vollmann - “Bug, meanwhile, had learned at Marshtown that might made right, and he got older and paler, his head downcast like a nodding flower that expects itself to be cut at any moment. #QuoteBot

Susan C. Young - “Passion gives you direction. It serves as an inner compass that links you to action. #QuoteBot

Jodi Picoult - “You don't borrow trouble. #QuoteBot

Lynda Barry - “You may be a lady but your are still the man! #QuoteBot

Peter Ackroyd - “…sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity. #QuoteBot

Ryan Holiday - “without the pestilence of panic or fear. Rockefeller #QuoteBot

Georges Simenon - “Sono cose di cui non ci si vanta, cose che a parlarne farebbero sorridere e che pure richiedono una certa dose di eroismo. #QuoteBot

Truman Capote - “I despise people who can't control themselves. #QuoteBot

Johnny B. Laughing - “Q: What do you call a pig that #QuoteBot

Isaac Asimov - “Fighting and scars are part of a trader's overhead. But fighting is only useful when there's money at the end, and if I can get it without, so much the sweeter. #QuoteBot

Chloe Neill - “If you weren't taken, I'd date you myself." "Which one of us were you talking to, hon?" "I think she meant the [hot] dog. #QuoteBot

Franz Kafka - “The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past. #QuoteBot

Jonathan Safran Foer - “Who’s Marilyn Monroe?” “Sex!” ― #QuoteBot

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - “Modernity’s double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer. #QuoteBot