30 Quotes by Tom Upton

You can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or not you like it.

I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I’ll make an exception.

Your dad and I have been talking.”“You need to stop that. The marriage will last longer.

UNDERTAKER!” the head boomed. “BOY, DO I HAVE A JOB FOR YOU!

It wasn’t human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didn’t need to be fixed; or, infinitely worse, trying to fix things that were broken, because some things are meant to be broken--

Poor kid-- all she’d wanted to do was get her teeth fixed.

An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he can’t find anything worth doing.

I do say so myself.” I wondered at the fact that Jon had photo-shopped anything. I couldn’t even imagine him using a computer – or a microwave oven, for that matter. After he put the money and IDs back into the safe, he dug.

Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.