“I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said.
"Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.”
― Love Story
"Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.”
― Love Story
“Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.”
― Aspects of the Novel
― Aspects of the Novel
“These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
“I knew I rode a rugged crest of turmoil that might crash on the rocky shore of irrational behavior.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow
“The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
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