House Quotes

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

Love was the most savage monster of all.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

Love is on every side, and no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape.

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.