Avalon Eyrelin Quotes & Sayings

This particularly unfashionable neighborhood was a shady one despite the absence of trees, and — Viet Thanh Nguyen

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me. — Markus Zusak

He went into the Gray Joy, drank a glass of Arkanarian brew, patted the hostess's cheek, and deftly used one of his swords to flip the table of the usual informer, who was gawking at him with empty eyes. Then he walked over to a far corner and tracked down a shabby bearded man with an inkwell around his neck. "Hello, Brother Nanin," he said. "How many petitions have you written today?"
Brother Nanin smiled shyly, showing small, decayed teeth. "There aren't many petitions written nowadays, noble don," he said. "Some people think that asking is pointless, while others expect that in the near future they'll be able to take without asking. — Arkady Strugatsky

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity. — Clay Shirky

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The meals we remember are the ones we have with others, not the TV. — Pamela Heyne

One of the reasons we keep so many sentimental items in our homes is because there is no boundary to force our hand in making a decision. As a result, more and more boxes get moved into the attic to store this ever-increasing collection. Instead, set an arbitrary boundary: one box, one drawer, or one shelf. — Joshua Becker

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love. — Teresa Mummert

In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion. — Dave Barry

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. — Robert Kennedy

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind. — Douglas Adams

Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude ... have any possible claim on me. — Jane Austen