Series Quotes - Page 6

• Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous." (J.R. on writing the BDB series)

  J.R. Ward

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

  Frank Portman

  Python, Everyday, Documentaries

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• Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Tea, Events

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• Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Style, Library

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• We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

  Bill Bryson

  Doors, Years, Four

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.319, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.

  Douglas Coupland

  Smart, Thinking, Doors

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• Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Writing, Light, Tree

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

  John Green

  Roots, Dating, Would Be

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.85, Penguin

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• Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.

  Julia Glass

  Years, Play, Long

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Fall, Height, Like Her

  Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.620, Simon and Schuster

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• She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a series of wounds were rising to the surface of her skin. All from the words. From Liesel's words.

  Markus Zusak

  Eye, Cutting, Blood

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.263, RH Childrens Books

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• I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

  Angela Carter

  Desire, Shapes, Kaleidoscope

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• Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

  David Sedaris

  Distance, Cities, Profound

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

  Anne Rice

  Mean, Thinking, Endless

  Anne Rice (1993). “Lasher”, Alfred A. Knopf Canada

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• Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

  Kij Johnson

  Years, Waiting, Months

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• The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Hurt, Tuesdays With Morrie, Opposites

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• If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Successful, Earthquakes, Personality

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

  Amanda Hocking

  Sometimes, Seems, Has Beens

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Ascend”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

  John Green

  New York, Numbers, Misery

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.832, Penguin

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• I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

  John Green

  Real, Kids, Fiction

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.46, Penguin

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• If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Suicide, Men, Self

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Once a bird kid, always a bird kid. - maximum ride series

  James Patterson

  Kids, Bird, Maximum Ride

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• He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Adventure, Men

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.144, VM eBooks

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• If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

  James Joyce

  Lasts, Firsts, Succeed

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.580, GENERAL PRESS

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• I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of flesh peeled off my feet along with my socks, when I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Lonely, Night, Feet

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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