Hellen Fventes > Hellen's Quotes

“Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“Meanwhile Aeneas the True longed to allay her grief and dispel her sufferings with kind words. yet he remained obedient to the divine command, and with many a sigh, for he was shaken to the depths by the strength of his love, returned to his ships.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Others were compiling a hasty mental inventory of all the pages they’d written, all the speeches they’d given, which might help them win favour with the new government (and since they had all more or less lamented the fact that France had lost her greatness, lost her daring and was no longer producing children, none of them was very worried).”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

“People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.”
― Natalie Babbitt

“They moved slowly, like fusgeyers, wanderers seeking a home in Europe, or erú West African tribesmen herded off a ship on a Virginia shore to peer back across the Atlantic in the direction of their homeland one last time, moving toward a common destiny, all of them—Isaac, Nate, and the rest—into a future of American nothing.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“Life is not fair, death is”
― Omar Farhad, Need a Ride?

“Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver