9 quotes found
“Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!”
“Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.”
“Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.”
“Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.”
“I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should”
“This was not the time to say I dont know. The brothers had begging, hungry looks, like dogs waiting to be fed. They wanted an answer. It would be nice if it was the right answer, but if it couldnt ...”
“...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!”
“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”
“They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh...”
