Party Quotes - Page 12

• There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

  Holly Black

  Gunshots

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Ya lied to me and put yerself in danger. If the Three hadn’t ripped you apart, those two bastards would have. Ya gotta listen to me girl. I’ve been down this road myself.’ Riley Smirked. ‘Those guys wanted to party with you too?

  Jana Oliver

  Girl, Two, Guy

  Jana Oliver (2011). “The Demon Trapper's Daughter: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.159, Macmillan

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• He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Philosophy, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1400, Delphi Classics

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• I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

  Stephen Fry

  Tupperware, Found

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.125, The Overlook Press

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• As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

  Susan Cain

  Boys, Long, People

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• Dear Alec & Magnus, It's Izzy. Got your card. Glad you're having fun. Nothing's happening here-Clary's mom is marrying some werewolf. I think you guys should get married too. I'm thinking about planing it. I love planing parties. -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Fun, Thinking

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• He scowled at me."You aren't any fun." "Party pooper extraordinaire,that's me.

  Kiersten White

  Fun

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• Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

  Lauren Kate

  School, Kids, Reform

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Ends, Shows

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Less Than Zero”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.

  Jon Stewart

  Believe, Tea, Ignorant

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• Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he'd never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sweet, Brother, Brain

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• Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a man, and they met at a party, that smile would've guaranteed him a date. The man was hot. There was no doubt. But right now, all it would get him was a solid punch in those even teeth. Audrey laughed. "Aren't you sweet? Tell me, do girls usually throw their panties at you when you do that?" He grinned wider, and she glimpsed the funny evil spark in his eyes. "Do men throw money when you do your little Southern belle?

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Sweet, Art

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.103, NYLA

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• We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

  Liane Moriarty

  Baby, Children, People

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• ‎''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.

  Tove Jansson

  Mistake, Sleep, Beer

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Tales from Moominvalley”, p.143, Macmillan

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• They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

  Libba Bray

  Evil, Genius, Evil Genius

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.339, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.

  Gena Showalter

  Blood, Done, Slumber

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.55, HQN Books

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• Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

  Steven Moffat

  Mets, Know How, Knows

  "Doctor Who". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,' it makes you wish you could saw their head off.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Sorry, Thinking, Self

  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.54, Macmillan

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• Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. "How much of that did you hear?" "Enough to gather that we're going to a party tonight," said Jordan. "I heard about the Ironworks event. I'm not in the Garroway pack, so I wasn't invited." "I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone back into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We'd better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Lying, Phones

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Real, Believe

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

  Janet Fitch

  Happy Birthday, Cake, Wish

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Minus my relationship with Kennedy, I had no automatic invitation to Greek Parties or events, though Chaz and Erin could invite me to some stuff since I fell under the heading of acceptable things to bring to any party: alcohol and girls. Awesome. I'd gone from independent girlfriend to party paraphernalia.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Independent, Alcohol

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• The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

  Daniel Handler

  Heart, Ties, Perfect

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• Well … Zeus approves, Aeolus muttered. ―He says … he says it would be better if you could avoid saving her until after the weekend, because he has a big party planned—Ow! That‘s Aphrodite yelling at him, reminding him that the solstice starts at dawn. She says I should help you. And Hephaestus… yes. Hmm. Very rare they agree on anything. Hold on

  Rick Riordan

  Weekend, Yelling, Dawn

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• But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

  Richelle Mead

  Cat, Tea, Mind

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