I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.
Christopher Barzak
Related I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at ... PHILIPPA GREGORY love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i w... MAYA ANGELOU I love you," she said wretchedly. “And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from y... LISA KLEYPAS I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t li... KURT VONNEGUT True Love has many forms. But my true love is her...and her name is B.D.C she is an amazing girl who... MICHAEL HENDERSON Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common ... NICHOLAS SPARKS The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with sil... ROMAN PAYNE You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid f... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid f... FREDRICK NIETZCHE I said, I want to tell you something. She said, you can tell me tomorrow. I had never told... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I know about love. I know about wanting and dreaming and wishing with every piece of your soul. I kn... TERA LYNN CHILDS They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is ... CASSANDRA CLARE Why must you hurt me, when I love you so? When I can do nothing else nor want to, for love made me a... STEPHEN KING I hate you.' My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno... A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. ... AYN RAND I'll never tell you to stop loving. You see, I believe in hopeless love. Oh yes. I believe in it wit... ANNE ELISABETH STENGL If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…” Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love ... COCO J. GINGER It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said. Nash thought about tha... KRISTIN CASHORE My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry BRUCE WILLIS My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry. BRUCE WILLIS The love I feel for you is beyond the stars in the sky, beyond the waves in the sea, beyond the real... MARIE CHAIDEZ I can honestly say that there was no nurturing at all. I mean, we were fed. We were well clothed. Th... MELODY STRONG I love you, ” he says , his words harsh and soft all at once. “ I love you and it isn’t enough... TAHEREH MAFI I had been much more in love with my wife than she with me, that was all. Somehow, you were supposed... AMANDA CRAIG I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a har... PETER S. BEAGLE Tell me that you don’t love me, and I’ll leave you alone. In this time or the next. Tell me that... MORYAH DEMOTT I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN If i was to tell you how much i miss you words would overwhelm me all i can say is every beat of my ... ATONG TULBA I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able t... MICHAEL EALY if my love were an ocean , There would be no more land. If my love were a desert , Yo... JAY ASHER If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you ... JAY ASHER I had to revise all my feelings once again. I pulled out the dregs of affection from the glass of mi... ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, le... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO For me as an artist, the expansiveness of my interests and my influences make me enigmatic. I think ... CEELO GREEN But I wasn't done. Staring into eyes that were as bright and beautiful than any tawny jewel, I said ... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We have had this discussion before. You are my son. I love you. I will always love you. But I also l... KATIE MACALISTER Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in... SAMUEL JOHNSON When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble o... TINA CARREIRO I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. Th... CRISS JAMI You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, a... WOODROW WILSON Do you love me, Westley? Is that it?’ He couldn’t believe it. ‘Do I love you? My God, if... WILLIAM GOLDMAN It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said. Nash thought about tha... KRISTIN CASHORE And then as you were sleeping, you said my name. You spoke so clearly, at first I thought you'd woke... STEPHENIE MEYER Lily, I have known you all my life, and I have watched you grow up from my sister’s annoying best ... SUSIE KAYE LOPEZ I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I h... SARA TEASDALE I love to cook. I'd have a dinner party, and someone would be like, 'Can you do this at my h... META GOLDING I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to... DAVE EGGERS Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does ... DIANA GABALDON I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself arou... IDINA MENZEL Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..................... JIMI HENDRIX She said, ‘You know that I love you.’ And, despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true: the ot... NEIL GAIMAN 15. WHENEVER I WENT OUT TO PLAY, MY MOTHER WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I WAS GOING TO BE NICOLE KRAUSS Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me onc... ALFRED LORD TENNYSON She came up to me one day and said 'I think it would be good if we did a fundraiser,' ... I said, 'W... JENNIFER HAMPTON I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as sur... DONALD MILLER love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives prote... RUSKIN BOND If I moved back, my mother would love for me to move in because she absolutely loves her boys. 12 bo... TERRY BRADSHAW My mother is my pastor She teaches me the Bible I love her as my mentor She tells me... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the in... OSCAR WILDE I must have been in the car for a long time because eventually my sister found me there. I was chain... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I ki... CLAIRE DENIS It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it ... WASHINGTON IRVING I came to love, I came into my own. THEODORE ROETHKE I told her to look in my eyes , but she said " if i looked into your eyes you will find love for you... ABDULLAH KHAN (AK) Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself ... WALT WHITMAN Have you ever loved anyone?" "You mean besides my mum?" Luke was dumbfounded as he stared ... LORRAINE HEATH I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the enti... LISA KLEYPAS Just as my mother loved me without fear, through my rebellion and darkest hour... I can only hope my... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now w... CASSANDRA CLARE I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to s... JOHN KEATS Clinging to him desperately, Sara kept her mouth at his ear. "Listen to me." All she could do was pl... LISA KLEYPAS I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it. EMMA BULL I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in foot... TROY POLAMALU If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and... DAVE EGGERS You once said you loved me. Do you still?" My sister is watching this exchange between us. She ... SIMONE ELKELES Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common ... NICHOLAS SPARKS In the heat of an argument, my mother once told me, "Someday you can go to a therapist and tell him ... ANDREW SOLOMON Self love is the only way to a high quality love life. The quality of men and love relationships you... JANET ONG ZIMMERMAN Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your pa... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself wi... KAMAND KOJOURI Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a... DAVE EGGERS He was my entire world. He still is. My best friend, lover, partner in crime and my other soul. But ... DOMINIC RICCITELLO I love you Utanapishtim. Ziasudra. And if I die tonight, my only regret will be that we didn't have ... MAGGIE SHAYNE Ash, you’re my sister and I love you. But some days you can be about as bright as a black hole. KARSTEN KNIGHT She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. ... JAROD KINTZ He stopped and took my hand. "If we die, or if I die..." He was speaking of dying, and I couldn... GAIL CARSON LEVINE I could go on all night, Lake. I could go on and on and on about all the reasons I’m in love with ... COLLEEN HOOVER No, it's not that. It's not what you're thinking. I was serious when I said 'all of it'. I can remem... NICHOLAS SPARKS I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our l... LAUREN KATE You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desir... JAMES JOYCE I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the enti... LISA KLEYPAS Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up. نزار قباني - NIZAR QABBANI You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up... ONE DIRECTION Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and ... THICH NHAT HANH Comrade, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before p... WALT WHITMAN I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this... CHUCK PALAHNIUK
More Christopher Barzak
Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are. CHRISTOPHER BARZAK Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can’t bea... CHRISTOPHER BARZAK Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. CHRISTOPHER BARZAK Normal is a setting on a washing machine. CHRISTOPHER BARZAK No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national el... CHRISTOPHER DAWSON What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We do... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage a... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t... CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Accurst be he that first invented war. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Confess and be hanged. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Our swords shall play the orators for us. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE What feeds me destroys me. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE There is no sin but ignorance. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Goodness is beauty in the best estate. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Above our life we love a steadfast friend. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hel... CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up ... CHRISTOPHER REEVE In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle a... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing... WARREN CHRISTOPHER It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe. WARREN CHRISTOPHER I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems. WARREN CHRISTOPHER I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-communit... WARREN CHRISTOPHER Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet the... WARREN CHRISTOPHER Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some pr... WARREN CHRISTOPHER You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated... WARREN CHRISTOPHER We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia... WARREN CHRISTOPHER I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the... WARREN CHRISTOPHER We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations ... WARREN CHRISTOPHER This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal... WARREN CHRISTOPHER The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace. WARREN CHRISTOPHER The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal. WARREN CHRISTOPHER Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting... WARREN CHRISTOPHER My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into ... WARREN CHRISTOPHER I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstra... WARREN CHRISTOPHER I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic. WARREN CHRISTOPHER I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried ... WARREN CHRISTOPHER Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together... WARREN CHRISTOPHER I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of ma... WARREN CHRISTOPHER When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on pu... WARREN CHRISTOPHER Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and Sou... WARREN CHRISTOPHER It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russi... WARREN CHRISTOPHER I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there unti... WARREN CHRISTOPHER Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists out... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN One always wonders about roads not taken. WARREN CHRISTOPHER When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll b... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every t... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew m... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligi... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; thes... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as ... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do al... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the ... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in hel... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res... CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS Happiness is only real when shared. CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS I now walk into the wild. CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. Non... CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sen... CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There wer... CHRISTOPHER ROUSE The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and... DENNIS CHRISTOPHER My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ... DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa... DENNIS CHRISTOPHER Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. CHRISTOPHER FRY What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody... CHRISTOPHER MILLER I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not gi... CHRISTOPHER GADSDEN There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absu... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something abou... ADAM CHRISTOPHER To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp... ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic... ADAM CHRISTOPHER My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the... ADAM CHRISTOPHER The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a compute... ADAM CHRISTOPHER I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main charact... ADAM CHRISTOPHER But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a ... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to cha... CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to g... CHRISTOPHER BOND I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I cam... CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particula... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets y... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franc... CHRISTOPHER FOWLER There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others ... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, pu... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over. CHRISTOPHER ATKINS When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g... CHRISTOPHER MOORE Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail... CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of priv... CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that ... CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT ...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without ... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the can... NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-styl... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our und... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for gra... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I'm crepuscular. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infec... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg s... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim under... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight? CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being hu... CHRISTOPHER LEACH When I went back to Iraq again, after the liberation was complete, I was myself engaged on a sort of... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', '... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Infinite riches in a little room. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. CHRISTOPHER QUILL Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe... CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes... CHRISTOPHER RICKS Only the sinner has a right to preach. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so
much attention. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. CHRISTOPHER MOORE One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi... CHRISTOPHER PIKE Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. CHRISTOPHER PIKE If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Without fear there cannot be courage. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Children see magic because they look for it. CHRISTOPHER MOORE Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack firs... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.No, but it's very... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks c... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks. CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, mos... CHRISTOPHER HOPPER He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ... CHRISTOPHER LASCH The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. CHRISTOPHER LASCH We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to l... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I sometimes think His critical judgement is so exquisite It leaves us nothing to admire except... CHRISTOPHER FRY Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a p... CHRISTOPHER ORLET Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy... CHRISTOPHER RICKS Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I lo... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who ... CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY