Junie Burtschi > Junie's Quotes

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“  Mary fought a savage impulse to slam the door on the couple. But they were too interesting to ignore in the circumstances of the murder. She caught sight of Richard spitting out a mouthful of hair.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“To a terrible place which men’s ears             may not hear of, nor their eyes see it.”
― Sophocles, Sophocles I: The Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.”
― Kerouac, Jack

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
― Mark Twain

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
― William Faulkner

“That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again."
"I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time."
"I've been thinking about you, too."
"I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know."
"I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me..”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“Scholarships allowed her to study at Woods Hole Biological Laboratory, where she fell in love with the sea, and at Johns Hopkins University, where she was isolated, one of a handful of women in marine biology. She had no mentors and no money to continue in graduate school after completing an M.A. in zoology in 1932. Along the way she worked as a laboratory assistant in the school of public health, where she was lucky enough to receive some training in experimental genetics. As employment opportunities in science dwindled, she began writing articles about the natural history of Chesapeake Bay for the Baltimore Sun. Although these were years of financial and emotional struggle, Carson realized that she did not have to choose between science and writing, that she had the talent to do both. From childhood on, Carson was interested in”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Not only do textbooks fail to blame the federal government for its opposition to the civil rights movement, many actually credit the government, almost single-handedly, for the advances made during the period.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“No podía obligarle a quedarse; sólo podía ayudarle a marcharse.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses

“There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.”
― Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle