15 quotes found
“Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them.”
“I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.”
“Lasher, she said, for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees.”
“No importava que Deus no cu fosse catlico, protestante ou hindu. O que importava era uma coisa mais profunda, mais antiga e mais forte do que qualquer imagem dessas: um conceito do bem baseado na a...”
“Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old, so clear and strong that he could slip his warm hand in mine, he could lift me in theair, yes, l...”
“And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had...”
“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those word...”
“You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.”
“But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she always had, that all that was ever meant was loneliness, hard work, strivi...”
“I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, dont bother to sell it to another human being. Its bad business to even consider such a thing.”
“My Lasher is powerful beyond yourdreams of a daimon, and he has learnt much.Learned, I repeated in amazement. How learned, Deborah, for he is merely a spirit, and they areforever foolish and therei...”
“When he speaks into your ear so thatno one can hear, he will say he is your slave, that hes passed to you from Deirdre. But its a lie, my dear,a vicious lie. Hell make you his and drive you mad if ...”
“Hell take from your mind the answer best suited to lead you on, to enthrall you. Hell weave a web of deceits so thick you wont see the world through it. He wants your strength and hell say what he ...”
“You think he has no will of his own? You are a fool,Charlotte. Lie with him instead of me! I laughed at her, and seeing the pain in her eyes, I laughed more.I should like to see it, you and your da...”
“She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive a...”
