“The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said that of course there must be more sand because of under the sea; in every ocean all over the world there would be sand, if you looked deep down. But there could be grass too, argued Deborah, a waving grass, a grass that nobody had ever seen, and the colour of that ocean grass would be darker than any grass on the surface of the world, in fields or prairies or people's gardens in America. It would be taller than tress and it would move like corn in the wind. ("The Pool”
― Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
― Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
“إن العيش من دون إدراك معنى العالم هو أشبه بالتجول فى مكتبة عظيمة من دون لمس الكتب.”
― The Lost Symbol
― The Lost Symbol
“On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
“He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.)”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
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