House Quotes
Nothing?" Favonius cried. "The one you care for most... plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth?"Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedrop
Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything...away.
The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.
Gran...I just want to say thank you for everything. I didn't realize how much you sacrificed.” “Children never do. Good Lord made it that way.
The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a mo
Oh, he's not like that, " said Favonius.Jason flinched. "You can read my
He cracked his crooked smile that made all women swoon except the ones who wanted to slap him. Faye was a fence-sitter on the subject.
Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls.
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.
It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.
In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.
I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.
Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.
Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.
Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God
Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors
Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.
...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.
It is more than love, barely less than madness. It’s never close enough.
The aunts’ conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further.
The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.
Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.
After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display.
Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.
There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.
While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices that mold and shape us.
...everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.
What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.
No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.
A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.
And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?
In Morocco, " said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.
You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It’s who you are.
Stories are how we connect. Evolution isn’t seriously about thumbs but about how we use language – that’s what raises us above dumb animals, right? Language?
Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn’t. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.
Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.
And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.
Alice felt a surge of pity for them, stuck as they were within the white-hot glow of youth, when everything seemed so vital, so essential, so important.