Bottles Quotes - Page 17

• Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him.

  David Levithan

  Girlfriend, Kissing, Thinking

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won’t be the same as the one we’ve got now, but it’ll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don’t make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don’t you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.

  Roberto Bolano

  Boys, Thinking, Worry

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• She chews her lip, staring into my eyes. "Okay... Why did you kiss me in Austin?" I laugh softly and she frowns. "Sorry. That one's too easy." My gaze flicks to her mouth and back. "I'd wanted to kiss you ever since Quinton suggested playing spin the bottle, and by that night in your room, I'd run out of willpower to fight it.

  Tammara Webber

  Running, Sorry, Eye

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.328, Tammara Webber

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• While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe.

  Amanda Hocking

  Believe, Force

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• Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Vegas, Sick, Guy

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• The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered and he looks a bit crestfallen when I say no. "It's because they don't have coverage out here," Griggs tells him. "No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Numbers, Nerd

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• When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Marine

  "Cannery Row".

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• Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.

  Mark Nepo

  Light, Broken, Dripping

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.24, Conari Press

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• Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and slices the bread. Peeta keeps all of us in fresh baked goods. I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy, to keep thought of our time as contestants in the Hunger Games at bay.

  Suzanne Collins

  Knives, Games, White

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• I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.

  Kanye West

  Hate, Rapper, Water Bottles

  "Kanye West's Water-Bottle Tweet Wins O Music Award". www.mtv.com. April 28, 2011.

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• For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Milk, Poet, Accurate

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• 3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separately Veet (It’s for Shaving your legs Only you don’t Need A razor. It’s with all the Girly cosmetic stuff) Vaseline six pack, Mountain Dew One dozen Tulips one Bottle Of water Tissues One Can of blue Spray paint

  John Green

  Girly, Blue, Water

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.31, A&C Black

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• Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Apples, Brain

  "Maskerade".

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• This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Aunt, Broken, Teeth

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• If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

  Lewis Carroll

  Poison, Wonderland, Drink

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.16, Branden Books

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• The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

  Michael Chabon

  Stars, Lying, Writing

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• I buy wine according to the bottle design. After I get down the first glass it all tastes okay to me so I figure you go for something classy to look at on the table

  Janet Evanovich

  Wine, Glasses, Design

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.635, Bantam

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• You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn’t need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe.

  Lynn Austin

  Ocean, Air, Forever

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• You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wife, Credit, Done

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.113, Wordsworth Editions

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• You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Moving, Fall, Cutting

  Alan Sillitoe (2003). “New and collected stories”, Robson Books Limited

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• Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

  Iqbal Quadir

  Freedom, Top Down, Approach

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• Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Knowing, Broken

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 23, 2013

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• I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

  Jane Austen

  Beer, World, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.190, Mondial

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• Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.

  Augusten Burroughs

  People, Fake, Positive Energy

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

  Maya Angelou

  Real, Garden, Play

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