My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

I'm so excited for my first fragrance! I chose to partner with Dots because I love what they do for their customers, bringing them the hottest trends in fashion, accessories and fragrance at unbelievably low prices. It's amazing!

Jordin Sparks

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.

Sloane Crosley

And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

Terry Pratchett

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Oscar Wilde

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Sarah Dessen

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

Thomas Carlyle

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Arthur Rimbaud

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

Rodney Dangerfield

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Baker

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

Mark Twain

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard