Bonanana Quotes & Sayings

The answer seems to be that we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. With the endless inventiveness of humankind, we grasp the very elements which are so divisive and destructive and try to turn them into tools - to dismantle themselves. — Stephen King

He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. — Geraldine Brooks

We talk of strong personalities, and they are strong, until the not-every-day when we see them as we might see one woman alone in a desert, and know that all the strength we thought we knew was only courage, only her lone song echoing among the stones; and then at last when we have understood this and made up our minds to hear the song and admire its courage and its sweetness, we wait for the next note and it does not come. The last word, with its pure tone, echoes and fades and is gone, and we realize - only then - that we do not know what it was, that we have been too intent on the melody to hear even one word. We go then to find the singer, thinking she will be standing where we last saw her. There are only bones and sand and a few faded rags. — Gene Wolfe

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. — Victor Hugo

Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results. — Hu Shih

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom. — Philippa Gregory

I dunno, Ralph. We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grown-ups would do. — William Golding