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He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the Mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could... J. K. Rowling
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of..."
I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is, any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Walt Whitman
Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags. Victor Hugo
The necropolis has never seemed a city of death to me; I know its purple roses (which other people think so hideous) shelter hundreds of small animals and birds. The executions I have seen performed and have performed myself so often are no more than a trade, a butchery of human beings who are for the most part less innocent and less valuable than cattle. When I think of my own death, or the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my... Gene Wolfe
Mario Puzo quote: "In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns."
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. Mario Puzo
Philip Roth quote: "He was no more, freed frombeing, entering into nowhere without..."
He was no more, freed frombeing, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start. Philip Roth
Alexander Dumas quote: "It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves..."
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides! Alexander Dumas
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man."
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor. Florida Scott-Maxwell
These napkins are more holy than righteous? Mrs. Wapshot said, and most of her conversation at table was made up of just such chestnuts, saws and hoary puns. John Cheever
Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—after the trouble is over—what was the matter with our minds. Christopher Morley
She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile. Stephen King
As mankind 'matures,' as it becomes more possible to be frank in the scrutiny of the self and others and in the publication of one's findings, biography and autobiography will take the place of fiction for the investigation and discussion of character. H. G. Wells
The camel has a big dumb ugly hump. But in the desert, where prettier, more streamlined beasts die quickly of thirst, the camel survives quite nicely. As legend has it, the camel carries its own water, stores it in its stupid hump. If individuals, like camels, perfect their inner resources, if we have the power within us, then we can cross any wasteland in relative comfort and survive in arid surroundings without relying on the external. Often, moreover, it is our "hump" - that aspect of our... Tom Robbins

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