Frederica Schessler > Frederica's Quotes

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

“Standing by the tall living room window, Audrey watched the sunset turning red, as if the clouds were soaked with spilled Bordeaux.”
― Marcia Breece

“Everybody has scars, and every scar has a story. Especially the ones you don’t see. Those go deeper. And cause more damage.”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

“It’s Gabe. My God, he’s so young and has the vision of a John Rockefeller. I’m not sure what you call it . . . but some people have strength of mind . . . his is of the soul.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Sometimes, I think that we each inhabit alternative bubbles of reality.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

“I mean, I’d thought about where I would be in five years, what I wanted, but I guess I didn’t realize I’d already headed down a path.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

“So, she had the right to love and cherish as well as take part in battles if that became necessary.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

“I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.”
― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“almost time to go home—and he had come to rely on the desolate wastes of time that lay between these pleasures as an invalid comes to rely on the certainty of recurring pain. It was a part of him.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“He liked the “casual” look of the basement of Westborough. “The jeans and so on.” Several talked about their “flexible hours.” “No one keeps track of the hours we work,” said Ken Holberger. He grinned. “That’s not altruism on Data General’s part. If anybody kept track, they’d have to pay us a hell of a lot more than they do.” Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting. That was the main thing.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

“Those are brave men... lets go kill them”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Boy on a Train From”
― Ralph Ellison, Flying Home and Other Stories