Abenteuer Quotes & Sayings

And the reward when good people die" - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - "the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven't been born yet. They pick out what kinds of traits they want the new people to have - they give them all the raw material of their souls, like their talents and their brains and their potential. Of course it's up to the new ones, once they're born, what they'll use and what they won't but that's what everyone who dies is doing, I think. — Dara Horn

It has oft been said that physicians make the worst patients, but it is the opinion of This Author that any man makes a terrible patient. One might say it takes patience to be a patient, and heaven knows, the males of our species lack an abundance of patience. — Julia Quinn

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. — Dick Bruna

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality. — Scott Westerfeld

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor. — Malcolm X

The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness. — Winston Churchill

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. — Henry David Thoreau

What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn? — Robert Jordan

Nice people always make me want to do bad things. — Marshall Thornton

Library users tell survey researchers that they want access to more ebooks and they want libraries to offer more technologically up-to-date services. — John Palfrey

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both. — Patrick Ness