121 quotes found
“What's seldom is wonderful.”
“Know a man by his metaphors.”
“Law and justice are not the same.”
“Slow animals always become prey in the end.”
“Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.”
“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.”
“If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.”
“He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.”
“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all read...”
“When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that...”
“Once upon a time for that is how all stories should begin there was a boy who lost his mother.”
“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”
“What do you believe in? asked David.I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortun...”
“When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.”
“I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his coming. I dream of snow and ice, of bare branches and moon-cast sh...”
“Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.”
“It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness yo...”
“The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who could...”
“I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their ...”
“The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.”
“As for dying, he didn't believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective real...”
“And I told him that I believed in God because I had seen His opposite. I had seen all that He was not, and been touched by it, and so I could no more deny the possibility of an ultimate goodness to...”
“After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.”
“It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is because small girls and babysitters, who are usually slightly larger girls, belon...”
“Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.”
