San > San's Quotes

“What was that?" Belgarath asked, coming back around the corner.
"Brill," Silk replied blandly, pulling his Murgo robe back on.
"Again?" Belgarath demanded with exasperation. "What was he doing this time?"
"Trying to fly, last time I saw him." Silk smirked.
The old man looked puzzled.
"He wasn't doing it very well," Silk added.
Belgarath shrugged. "Maybe it'll come to him in time."
"He doesn't really have all that much time." Silk glanced out over the edge.
"From far below - terribly far below - there came a faint, muffled crash; then, after several seconds, another. "Does bouncing count?" Silk asked.
Belgarath made a wry face. "Not really."
"Then I'd say he didn't learn in time." Silk said blithely.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.”
― David Eddings

“Trust me. - Silk”
― David Eddings

“Dost thou question my word, Sir Knight?" Madorallen returned in an ominously quiet voice. "And wilt thou then come down and put thy doubt to the test? Or is it perhaps that thou wouldst prefer to cringe doglike behind thy parapet and yap at thy betters?"
"Oh, that was very good," Barak said admiringly.”
― David Eddings, Queen of Sorcery

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
― Anne Herbert

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close.

She would probably bite him if he tried.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.”
― Stieg Larsson

“I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions”
― Dag Hammarskjold

“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods