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Downing Quotes (page 139)

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed. Paula Poundstone
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears Hunter S. Thompson
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me."
My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me. Chuck Palahniuk
We believe that the death of Christ is just that point in history at which something absolutely unimaginable from outside shows through into our world... Indeed, if we found that we could fully understand it, that very fact would show it was not what it professes to be - the inconceivable, the uncreated, the thing from beyond nature, striking down into nature like lightning. C. S. Lewis
All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule Narnia for another hundred years. So maybe I die, and winter goes on. Maybe the hunger and the darkness and the fear never end. But as long as the children believe in me, I know that Aslan will live again. I, the Great Lion, Son of The Emperor Over The Sea, will live again and -- aaaaauugh!! C. S. Lewis
Idries Shah quote: "A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the..."
A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain. Idries Shah
Buttercup could picture Westley rounding the final corner. There were four guards outside waiting. At ten seconds per guard, she began figuring, but then stopped, because numbers had always been her enemy. She looked down at her hands. Oh, I hope he still thinks ?m pretty, she thought; those nightmares took a lot out of me. William Goldman
Alice Hoffman quote: "You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come..."
You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, even your best friend is a puzzle. Alice Hoffman
(paraphrased from Tim Powers) "My style might seem awkward, but I'm only trying to write down the things in the scene that I think the reader should know. Ernest Hemingway
John Mortimer quote: "Soapy Sam looked as though he had just sat down on a favourite..."
Soapy Sam looked as though he had just sat down on a favourite armchair which had gone missing. John Mortimer
Suzanne Collins quote: "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I..."
Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back, but I don't quite catch it. Suzanne Collins
Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and then went on their way rejoicing. E. M. Forster
Toni Morrison quote: "If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long,..."
If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up. Toni Morrison
But how do you see you?" she asked."Ever read The Brothers Karamazov?" I asked."Once, a long time ago."Well, toward the end, Alyosha is speaking to a young student named Kolya Krasotkin. And he says, Kolya, you're going to have a miserable future. But overall, you'll have a happy life."Two beers down, I hesitated before opening my third."When I first read that, I didn't know what Alyosha meant," I said. "How was it possible for a life of misery to be happy overall? But then I understood, that... Haruki Murakami
What is this, a summit meeting?" Alan demanded as he strode down the hall. "It's one thing to be the advance man," he continued as he cupped a hand around the back of his wife's neck, "and another to be the sacrificial lamb. Dad's doing a lot of moaning and groaning about this family scattering off in all directions."With Caine getting the worst of it," Serena put in."Yeah." Alan grinned once, appealingly. "Too bad he's late. Nora Roberts

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