Alma Ginger > Alma's Quotes

“We know you stood guard duty at the White House, Reuben. We have film of you urinating behind the bushes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Worm Holes

“His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up.”
― Irvine Welsh, Skagboys

“Now I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man.  But oh! when I understood these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well.  For, though as yet I was nothing but a poor painted hypocrite, yet, I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly. ”
― John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

“The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“- Adevărat nu înseamnă felul cum eşti făcut, a spus Calul de Piele. E un lucru care ţi se-ntâmplă. Când cineva ţine la tine vreme-ndelungată, nu doar ca să se joace cu tine, ci fiindcă te iubeşte CU ADEVĂRAT, atunci devii şi tu Adevărat.
- Şi doare? a întrebat Iepurele.
- Uneori, a zis Calul de Piele, care nu minţea niciodată. Dar când eşti Adevărat, nu iei în seamă durerea.
- Şi se întamplă dintr-odată, ca şi cum te-ar fi întors cineva cu cheia, sau pas cu pas? a întrebat Iepurele.
- Nu se-ntâmplă dintr-odată, a spus Calul de Piele. Devii treptat. Şi durează mult. De-asta nu prea li se-ntîmplă celor care se sparg uşor, au muchii tăioase sau trebuie păstraţi cu grijă. În general, când ajungi Adevărat, nu mai ai mult păr, îţi ies ochii din găvane, te lasă încheieturile şi eşti ponosit. Dar lucrurile astea n-au nicio importanţă, fiindcă odată ce eşti Adevărat, nu mai poti să fii urât decât pentru cei care nu-nţeleg.”
― Margery Williams Bianco

“He said he loved Blue. He said he loved the evil in Blue. He loves the evil in all people. Because in loving their evil, he loves the evil in himself enough to surrender it to God, who washes it clean. He’s loving what God made, is what he said.”
― James McBride, Five-Carat Soul

“Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

“Martha'nın akciğerlerinde uyumak, onun kanını solumak ve avutulmak istiyordu.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Which makes you grip this rail even tighter. And holding it so tightly reminds you of its purpose, and the fact that you're not supposed to go over the rail – because life is meant to be protected, not discarded.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

“And without fame, a man must spend his life
Only to leave such traces upon earth
As smoke leaves in the air, or foam in the sea”
― Dante Alighieri

“shvartze”
― Leon Uris, Mitla Pass

“Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“I can hardly wait to read it all. But it seems I don't have three minutes to rub together. Some time soon I will take it on, maybe when Charlie is a few months older.”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories

“I had to make her mine, she had to be mine. Now. Yesterday. Tomorrow. Every fucking tomorrow. No games, no more pain. Just me and her, loving and laughing. Living. Really living. Fuck, I could live if I had her. I could really live.”
― Lucian Bane, Dom Wars: Round Four

“Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn’t help yourself?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Queen's Fool

“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.”
― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

“Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?’ ” “ ‘And if the Truth is hidden?’ ” Toranaga said. “ ‘It’s already clear,’ ” Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

“he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Aquitaine Progression

“He was only a boy from a Welsh hill village who had the good fortune to become a monk. Today he would speak to the king. What gave him the right?”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago.

*Typo: "destiny" should read "density.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves