313 quotes found
“Never Give up, never surrender.”
“Several Terminal Policy readers got together to tell Raker jokes: - Raker CAN piss into the wind. - Raker donates a lot of blood to the Red Cross -- just never his own. - Superman wears Raker paj...”
“There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.”
“My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak to one for whom i care. A hatpin serves as part of my disguise. In the play, my role is baticeer; a word ...”
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”
“If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things should be thus. We are the playthings of the forces that laid out the oceans and ...”
“The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.”
“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”
“--I didnt know what was more dangerous...the things he said or the way his voice seeped into the crevices of my soul.--My body liked the effect he had on me, but my mind was gathering caution tape ...”
“His shrill cries flood the forest like light engulfing a silhouette.”
“My eyes meet his and I understand exactly what he's saying. He's my person. He's my home.”
“What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?”
“The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.”
“I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.”
“Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?”
“And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment Ill never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.”
“Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.”
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
“It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same force, blindly seeing, deafly hearing, unconsciously remembering, that drives the larva into the butterfly. If he...”
“She knew half of the correspondents had broken under the excruciating pressure. And the other half who said they had made it, simply lied. She also knew there was a good chance she would too. But i...”
