80 quotes found
“Even the Dead Hunger for Life.”
“From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy”
“Tomorrow never yet On any human being rose or set.”
“We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.”
“The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.”
“My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...”
“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
“I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course...”
“So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little i...”
“You can never stay angry too long in the bush though. At least, that's what I think. It's not that it's soothing or restful, because it's not. What it does for me is get inside my body, inside my b...”
“Want to go upstairs and play ball?""Now, you're talking. Naked basketball. Always my favorite.""Loser gets fucked first.""Jesus, Thursday, every time you set that rule you cheat.""What do you mean,...”
“The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.”
“How strange it would now like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?”
“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can't think of any other word for it. I was thinking about the beach ...”
“But somehow, standing in the clear night air, under a sky that glowed like a shower of sparks, none of that stuff mattered. It slipped off me. It was like shedding your clothes before you step in t...”
“I remembered Robyn telling me the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and how they'd survived: when the King chucked them in the furnace and an angel or someone went in with them. The furnace...”
“Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.”
“I knew then the answer to my question; the question Id asked myself many times during this war, and many more times since it ended. When would I be able to put the war behind me? When would I be ab...”
“I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.”
“It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.”
“My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.”
“Hunter could only groan. What are you doing, Kristen?Bringing breakfast. She replied innocently. Think of it as thanks for saving my life.Hunter sat up in bed, looking his usual ruffled morning mes...”
“Remember the plan? Hunter asked as they drew closer to their target.Kristen looked at him sceptically. "'Keep quiet and dont get seen is not a very professional plan. Did you have anything else to ...”
