Allelon Quotes & Sayings

I carry it all with me, in the quiet pools and strong currents of my being. I fill my hands with the black dirt left by the river's birth. I believe that what I hold in my hands is memory: like the river, it takes what it touches, carrying it along until all that remains is the bed over which the water flows. — Kim Barnes

All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed. — Maxine

The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling "strategies." We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch
there's not a chance. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world. — George Santayana

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines. — Simone De Beauvoir

I used to believe, bless my naive little heart, that I had something to offer the robbed dead. Not revenge-there's no revenge in the world that could return the tiniest fraction of what they've lost-and not justice, whatever that means, but the one thing left to give them: the truth. I was good at it. I had one, at least, of the things that make a great detective: the instinct for truth, the inner magnet whose pull tells you beyond any doubt what's dross, what's alloy, and what's the pure, uncut metal. I dug out the nuggets without caring when they cut my fingers and brought them in my cupped hands to lay on graves, until I found out-Operation Vestal again-how slippery they were, how easily they crumbled, how deep they sliced and, in the end, how very little they were worth. — Tana French

So we said, "OK, we'll do Apple Computer." In those days there was no money yet in this microcomputer business, and big experienced companies and investors, analysts-those kind of people, that are trained in business and much smarter than we were-they didn't think that this was going to be a real big market. They thought it was going to be a little hobby thing, like home robots or ham radios, that a few techie people would get into and really it wasn't going to go to the masses. — Jessica Livingston

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory — Napoleon Bonaparte

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring. — Malalai Joya

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. — Henry George

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through. — Edward James Olmos

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now. — Nick Harkaway

It is no longer enough simply to solve crimes: We modern private detectives must also be able to come up with catchy names for our cases. — Alan Bradley

Strip away the fear, underneath it's all the same love — Macklemore