Walter Aid > Walter's Quotes

“If Brian Harvey from East 17 has lived there, it can’t be that fucking bad”
― Matthew Bracey, Steel Dogs

“It will pain me to see you two make fools of yourselves trying to avoid one another."
"I barely see him, I won't look foolish."
Valgu looked unconvinced.
"The times I do see him, I can use one of your aloof expressions that I've been practicing."
"Good idea, he'll never see through that."
"I'm not going to cry openly, or sit around pining for him. I'll pretend it doesn't hurt, until it really doesn't. I know how to do that.”
― Andrea Luhman, Missing Wings

“I looked back at the two of them. I knew I didn't have the sharpest knives carving my Christmas turkey but I had what I had.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Yesterday was surreal. At times K was almost back to herself…funny…interested and relatively mobile. She was tactile and we kissed…she whispered naughty comments into my ear…achingly beautiful…I love her so much”
― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

“It was cold out here in this world beyond childhood.”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Bat (The Red Grouse Tales) - A coming of age story involving a search after truth, doubt and a bat!

“I am in the perfect place, in the perfect time, at the perfect frequency and am worthy to receive”
― Daniel Mangena

“A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the song became a different thing from what it had been, barely recognizable in either tune or lyric. But you could not say the song had been improved, for as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement.Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even.Any thought otherwise was empty pride.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“She's never where she is,' I said. 'She's only inside her head.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Souls are complicated things.”
― Mark Helprin, in Sunlight and in Shadow

“take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Yes. You’re a good listener. That’s dangerous, because it’s so hard to resist. Being listened to—really listened to—is the second-best thing in the world.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Du jour où il nait, l'homme commence à mourir; c'est la vérité qu'incarne la Mère.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe, I

“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
― ursula le guin

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon.
Opal tapped this into her notepad.
Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable?”
― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

“It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

“It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes over me and...and I'm done for another day. I just give up. Give in to it. Because how do you stop a wave?

You don't. And you're wise to recognize your powerlessness to do so. But what you can do is learn how to negotiate this wave. Work within the context of its inevitability.”
― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed

“Humans are storytellers. It is our nature to make up stories, to interpret everything we perceive. Without awareness, we give our personal power to the story and the story writes itself. With awareness, we recover the control of our story. We see we are the authors and if we don't like our story, we change it.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.”
― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

“Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys...'

Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddamn toilet seat.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.”
― Lemony Snicket

“when your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it’s always hard to sleep.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

“Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

“For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.
- William”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“If I'd let my mind roll with that boxing metaphor just a little longer, I might've followed it to its logical conclusion: In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they're ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn't see coming”
― Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

“A romantic she was, but not a pendeja.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?”
― Ann Patchett, Run