Claire > Claire's Quotes

“I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.”
― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
― T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

“His heart was a church of his own choosing,
and the lights came through
the colourful windows.”
― Patrick deWitt, Undermajordomo Minor

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Or is it that I think too much?”
― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company

“Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.”
― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“What of the melancholy, may I ask?"
"Stubbornly persistent, I'm sorry to say."
"If only modest joy were so dogged, eh?"
"You said something there, sir.”
― Patrick deWitt, Undermajordomo Minor

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“There is no day that one should skip
But one should seize, without distrust,
The possible with iron grip”
― Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice