Bullerjan Furnace Quotes & Sayings

She knew too much and she admitted it in that report. — Ally Condie

You said how Michelangelo was a manic-depressive who portrayed himself as a flayed martyr in his painting. Henri Matisse gave up being a lawyer because of appendicitis. Robert Schumann only began composing after his right hand became paralyzed and ended his career as a concert pianist. (...) You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. Mozart and his uremia. Paul Klee and the scleroderma that shrank his joints and muscles to death. Frida Kahlo and the spina bifida that covered her legs with bleeding sores. Lord Byron and his clubfoot. The Bronte sisters and their tuberculosis. Mark Rothko and his suicide. Flannery O'Connor and her lupus. Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

"According to Thomas Mann," Peter said, "'Great artists are great invalids. — Chuck Palahniuk

Honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. — Joseph Addison

We're watchers of this world aren't we? not players — Maggie Stiefvater

A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom! — J.G. Farrell

The horror was this: the others. — Anne Rice

Want to know a secret? I am someone else. Nobody knows the real me. — Kirsty Eagar

What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can't be real. — Megan Hart

She's alone, Inserted so deep in her blankets; I'm going to need a map to find her. — Tanya Watt

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is. — Bruce Lee