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Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? Julian Barnes
Cormac McCarthy quote: "He turned and looked at the boy. Standing with his suitcase..."
He turned and looked at the boy. Standing with his suitcase like an orphan waiting for a bus. Cormac McCarthy
He'd stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would raise his weeping eyes and see him standing there in the road looking back at him from some unimaginable future, glowing in that waste like a tabernacle. Cormac McCarthy
Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different. J. K. Rowling
The salamanders, like tiny birds, locked into formation, fly down into the endless mysteries of the transforming water, and how could anyone believe that anything in this world is only what it appears to be— that anything is ever final— that anything, in spite of its absence, ever dies a perfect death? (from the poem 'What Is It?') Mary Oliver
Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing. Terry Goodkind
When I tried to show him how an electromagnet works by making a little coil of wire and hanging a nail on a piece of string, I put the voltage on, the nail swung into the coil, and Jerry said, “Ooh! It’s just like fucking! Richard P. Feynman
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I never hurt Grandpa or Sue or Billy. I love humans. And..."
I never hurt Grandpa or Sue or Billy. I love humans. And wolf-people like my Jacob. Stephenie Meyer
This was not Newt's fault; in his younger days he would go every couple of months to the barber's shop on the corner, clutching a photograph he's carefully torn from a magazine which showed someone with an impressively cool haircut grinning at the camera and he would show the picture to the barber, and ask to be made to look like that, please. And the barber, who knew his job, would take one look and then give Newt the basic, all-purpose, short-back-and-sides. After a year of this, Newt... Neil Gaiman
..the Lord who had come to renew society, who lay like a coverlet, a snow blanket smitten only by the sun, for ever unwasted, suffering for ever, the scapegoat, the eternal sufferer... Virginia Woolf
Van Morrison quote: "And I want to rock your gypsy soul. Just like way back in the..."
And I want to rock your gypsy soul. Just like way back in the days of old. And magnificently we will fold into the mystic Van Morrison
You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken. Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time your persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains,... Neil Gaiman
I felt absolutely nothing. It was like a door quickly opened, showing me what horrible feelings I had inside, and then slammed shut again so I wouldn't have to actually face them. Augusten Burroughs
Frederick Forsyth quote: "there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like..."
there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation." [p.28] Frederick Forsyth
I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish t were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is... Margaret Atwood

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