Brain Strem > Brain's Quotes

“Love is the Answer, God is the Cure!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

“Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens. ”
― Lois Lowry

“I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and language-obsessed to that country where I make my living. Except for teaching, I’ve had no other ambition in life than to write books that mattered.”
― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

“Misfortunes make us wise”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

“And a word carries far-very far-deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim