Knowing Quotes (page 588)

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• money
• hope
• time

Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am sane. Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. Margaret Atwood

• dark
• great
• past

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Margaret Atwood

• happy
• look
• wellness

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me. Bram Stoker

• dead
• willful
• problems

Edward: “After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved. Stephenie Meyer

• may
• night
• rain

She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him. Thomas Pynchon

• faith
• lost
• saying

You say you lost your faith. But that's not where it's at. You had no faith to lose. And you know it Bob Dylan

• knowledge
• beard
• common

Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge. Terry Goodkind

• she
• world
• walk away

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once. Barbara Kingsolver

• sparkle
• food
• goodbye

My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime... Bill Bennett

• black
• manly
• hard

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period Alice Walker

• evening
• computers
• thinking

I was worried about sex," he went on. "But you know what, Sulie? It's like being told I can't have any caviar for the next couple years. I don't even like caviar. And when you come right down to it, I don't want sex right now. I supposed you punched that into the computer? 'Cut down sex drive, increase euphoria'? Anyway, it finally penetrated my little brain that I was just making trouble for myself, worrying about whether I could get along without something I really didn't want. It's... Frederik Pohl

• best
• seductive
• saying

He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets? I say in my best seductive voice. Suzanne Collins

• wisdom
• power god
• end

Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternityto eternity. Johannes Kepler

• dead
• mind
• change

He wanted you dead, now he doesn't, I don't know why. Chimera's crazy, he doesn't need a reason to change his mind. Laurell K. Hamilton

• life
• listened
• guard

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it. Rosa Luxemburg