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And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain. Leo Tolstoy
We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We don't know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We don't even know what color they'll be. Cormac McCarthy
Ray Bradbury quote: "I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in..."
I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them. Ray Bradbury
He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts--a few of them--which at the moment of their coming to him had thrilled him almost like adventures. Henry James
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging..."
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill. J. R. R. Tolkien
If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore. Meg Cabot
Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all. Hunter S. Thompson
May Sarton quote: "A garden is always a series of losses set against a few..."
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. May Sarton
Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?"She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that. Neil Gaiman
Love? Do I love? I walk. Within the brilliance of another's thought, As in a glory. I was dark before, as Venus' chapel in the black of night: But there was something holy in the darkness, Softer and not so thick as the other where; And as rich moonlight may be to the blind, Unconsciously consoling. Then love came, Like the out-bursting of a trodden star. Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking? David Foster Wallace
No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her. Steig Larsson
We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that in English we sometimes say, 'I've been there.' This was unclear to him at first-I've been where? But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific loacation, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that... Elizabeth Gilbert
Limping, attendants rushed up to support him, Attendants made of gold who looked like real girls, With a mind within, and a voice, and strength, And knowledge of crafts from the immortal gods. These busily moved to support their lord... Homer
Julia Child quote: "It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the..."
It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom. Julia Child

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