302 quotes found
“Regarding the Forbidden Book:There comes a time in every civilization where the forces of goods and progressive thinking have to face the forces of ignorance, evil and tyranny.What becomes of the l...”
“What, everyone you know has been kidnapped by pirates and forced to chop octopus in a kitchen that smells like a whale's stomach?""Quite a lot of them, yes," said Trudi, who appeared to be one of t...”
“Life is too short to cower.”
“There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.”
“There are no coincidences", Silette wrote. "Only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overheard, the leaf in our path, the ...”
“The world is only as small as your mind makes it.”
“Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.”
“Getting lost or losing grip gives life meaning and direction. It gives you the opportunity to grow, learn something new and startover. Next time you feel like your failing, slipping or just unsettl...”
“Never judge a book by its price.”
“People always say how you should be yourself. Like yourself is a definite thing, like a toaster or something.”
“This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.”
“Well I'm not going to hope that you get hurt, but if you do, remember that you're my damsel in distress, and no one is allowed to carry you.""I don't remember signing a contract.""All the more reas...”
“Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.”
“Service is one of life's great joys. It's a privilege to be in service. It's a great relief, a gift, to be faced with a job that you know absolutely you must do for the benefit of someone else. As ...”
“I just called you corny and said you were wearing a green dress. That's, like, the least flirtatious thing anyone's ever ”
“The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your eyes sharp to those few souls who stagger by, daring them to believe that you are not, in fact, ...”
“There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people werent even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. The...”
“Our anxieties were driving us to become other people-he was Earner; I was Mother, like characters in some phenomenally boring Ionesco play. We both worried all the time and often didn't remember to...”
“He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.”
“What importance should be given to details, in developing a subject?--Remorselessly sacrifice everything that does not contribute to clarity, verisimilitude, and effect.Accentuate everything that s...”
