When I published my first novel, Slammed, I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep.
Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious.
He’d wanted his first kiss to be with me.
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.
Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can’t be logical about.
What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.
Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can’t see it, touch it, only feel it. It’s called LOVE.
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
I can never remember things I didn’t understand in the first place.
A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.
You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.