Page 84 Quotes

“There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it.”
― Todd Strasser

“The pointlessness of art is not the pointlessness of a game; it is the pointlessness of human life itself, and form in art is properly the simulation of the self-contained aimlessness of the universe.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good

“A long time ago we stirred up the depths, but that is over. In other words...in those days we made history; now you make politics. That's the whole difference.”
― Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

“Reading the letter, I felt something I think only the nuns of the camp could understand—the warmth and protection of faith.”
― Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

“There’d be no lifted eyebrows much less outright rejection there, no better place at this hour to while away the time.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“He had to will his feet to descend. If he could have run away, he would have. Facing the essential operation, the patient couldn’t run. No matter his fright, he must submit, holding his tenuous courage to wavering hope.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man