Never Quotes (page 236)

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• teacher
• you me
• old

I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charge? youthful beginnings. J. K. Rowling

• friends
• friend
• him

If you want to keep a friend, never test him. John Steinbeck

• smile
• evening
• words

His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh George R. R. Martin

• god
• black
• evening

Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it's too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be. William Gaddis

• thoughts
• emotional
• believe

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. Jeanette Winterson

• directed
• rightfully
• right

Its never too late ...to start heading in the right direction. Seth Godin

• girl
• flower
• great

Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls. They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before. I have forgotten their names? Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• silence
• thinking
• images

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight Marguerite Duras

• scaring
• know
• knowing

I've never really done this. Now I know what scared is. Reba McEntire

• good
• question
• questioned

Good question, but no answer. Good questions never have answers. Haruki Murakami

• get
• keep
• getting

You keep floudering and never get anywhere. Haruki Murakami

• personality
• personal
• also

It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never ask if he's right- or left-handed. After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen? Jodi Picoult

• time
• thirds
• willingly

What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time. Paulo Coelho

• sorry
• feeling
• after

I feel sorry now myself,” admitted Davy, “but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I’ve did them. L. M. Montgomery

• you me
• time
• intelligent

Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical figures too numerous to mention collectively, never standing still or resting but spinning away and darting hither and thither and back again, all the time on the go. These diminutive gentlemen are called atoms. Do you follow me intelligently? Flann O'Brien