Aanleg Vijver Quotes & Sayings

My main thesis is narrower and, I think, more defensible: understanding reality, in the sense of being able to use what we know to predict what we don't, is best achieved using the tools of science, and is never achieved using the methods of faith. — Jerry A. Coyne

And all around us, as if the world itself were indeed falling apart, stars rained down.
Bits of stardust glowed on his lips as he pulled away, as I stared up at him, breathless, while he smiled. The smile the world would likely never see, the smile he'd given up for the sake of his people, his lands. He said softly, I am ... very glad I met you, Feyre. — Sarah J. Maas

What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description. — R.D. Laing

My heart is hidden inside poetry's demesne. — Delano Johnson

As much automatic, Abnegation-bred sympathy as I have for the people living in this place, I am also afraid of them. If they are like the factionless, then they are surely desperate like the factionless, and I am wary of desperate people. — Veronica Roth

There are many people that we meet in our lives. But only a very few will make a lasting impression on our minds and hearts. — Susan Polis Schutz

They loved scenes of righteous Godly vengeance on sinful mankind. They loved to show God's chosen people safe from harm, watching with happy faces as they were proved right to the world. But they never showed the aftermath. They never showed weeping humans, crushed and dying in pools of their own fluids. Young men smashed into piles of red flesh. A young woman cut in half because she was passing through a hatchway when catastrophe hit. This was Armageddon. This is what it looked like. Blood and torn flesh and cries for help. — James S.A. Corey

What if pretending is interfering with the person you're meant to be?" he said. — Robin Bielman

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way. — Candis Cayne

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that. — Laura Lippman

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible. — Niels Bohr

I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.' — Lisa Murkowski

That's the worst way to miss somebody. When they're right beside you and you miss them anyway. — Pittacus Lore