693 Quotes About Contemporary

What's all this nonsense about odd vision and not fitting in? There are plenty worse things in this world than not fitting in--like fitting in way too much. You strike me as a real original, Izzy Malone, in a world that loves carbon copies. If you think you beautified something, I believe you. I've never understood why folks love safe, neutral colors so much. Colors are what make this world worth living in.

No one is sent by accident to anyone.

Fate bring two people together and it is love's job to keep them there

It’s like your whole life you’ve been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catchesyou. And you realize that somehow you’ve caught her at the same time. And together, instead offalling, you might be able to fly.” The ghost went to the discarded clipping and stared down at thephoto, riveted. “She’s a beaut, isn’t she?”“Sure,” Alex said automatically, although there was nothing of Zoë’s sparkling allure in thephoto, only a hint of resemblance.

Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it's always with you the rest of your life.

The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.

The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.

Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.