“Queen Anne's lace lay dusty on the surface of the meadows like foam on a painted sea.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
“I meditate fourteen hours a day—two hours out of bed and twelve hours in bed. The mortals call it sleeping, but the enlightened are awake. It’s just the body that sleeps.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“Beware what you speak,’ said the Merlin very softly, ‘for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.”
― The Mists of Avalon
― The Mists of Avalon
“I was asked to speak about survival. The difficulty for me is that survival is the least of my desires. I'm interested in a lot more than mere survival.”
― Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
― Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
“It was, of course, an appropriate offering, and Jereth was insistent. He had the bridgework dragged out by a prisoner who had once had a dental practice in Cracow. Licht melted the gold down and by noon on May 8 was engraving an inscription on the inner circle in Hebrew. It was a Talmudic verse which Stern had quoted to Oskar in the front office of Buchheister’s in October 1939. “He who saves a single life saves the entire world.”
― Schindler's List
― Schindler's List
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