637 quotes found
“She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .”
“Shiva and Saleem, victor and victim; understand our rivalry, and you will gain understanding of the age in which you live. (The reverse of this statement is also true.)”
“What's the use of stories that aren't even true?”
“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.”
“These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.”
“Never be fooled by what you see. It's what you do not see that will kill you.”
“...one could accept Muhammad as a genuine mysticjust as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as having genuinely been heard by her, or the revelations of Saint John the Divine as being that troubl...”
“Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, storie...”
“Up ahead stands the fun house, which you enter through a clowns smiling mouth.I would kill myself if I was prisoner here, Shelby says.No, you wouldnt, just out of courtesy, I say, because your body...”
“Its going to be a pretty day to fly.”
“Maybe in the case of true human, their mind, their soul, their consciousness flows through their bodies like blood, inhabiting every cell of their physical being, and so Aristotle was right, in hum...”
“She wanted to say, I am made of smoke. My mind is smoke, my thoughts are smoke, I am all smoke and only smoke. This body is a garment I put on, which by my magic art I have made capable of function...”
“... but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.”
“In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.”
“She made the mistake of raising me to have a voice”
“This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain,' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her.”
“this stuff tastes like the bastard love child of grapes and rubbing alcohol”
“In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches do the right thing, for the right reason no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.”
“Socialism is politicized envy.”
“Shadows of the world made shadows of the heart much deeper.”
