Akinli From The Siren Quotes & Sayings

I didn't choose to get entangled in my domestic life, my boxer's clinch with Kathy. And if you think I did or do, it's because you're morbidly young. You've failed to pass from adolescent freedom into the land which I inhabit: married to a woman who is economically, intellectually, and even this, too, even erotically my superior. — Philip K. Dick

The river of my village doesn't make you think about anything.
When you're at its bank you're only at its bank. — Alberto Caeiro

But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer. — A.A. Milne

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all. — Bertrand Russell

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect. — Jodi Picoult

Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be. — Terry Hands

A guy named Otto Sayas - I would give anything to have a name that was a palindrome - knocks — Holly Goldberg Sloan

Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes. — Seo Do-young

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed ... magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory. — Neil Armstrong

There is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are dead. — Robert Charles Wilson

Consistency and an established worldview were excess baggage in the intellectual mobile warfare that flared up in the mass media's tiny time segments, and it was his great advantage to be free of such things. — Haruki Murakami

It was like staring at a piece of art or the stars in the sky. I just had to watch him.
-Kahlen, The Siren — Kiera Cass

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s. — Jet Li