Cafenation Quotes & Sayings

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are. — Toni Morrison

Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. Viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. You couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory ... — William Gibson

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. — Hannah More

You ever f**k Susan here?" she said, her face almost touching mine.
"I'm impressed," I said. "The question is intrusive, annoying, coarse, and voyeuristic. That's quite a lot to get into a simple question. — Robert B. Parker

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said. — Jacques Maritain

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death. — Ian Caldwell

I want what everybody wants,
that's how I know I'm still
breathing ... — Mark Doty

Violence, once committed, lingered behind and subtly worked on those sensitive to its ugliness. — Christine Feehan

Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved. — Richelle Mead

Birds are waterproof. — Lewis Nordan

Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it. — Ian McDonald

It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it exists only on the white page. — Natasha Solomons

actually considered it. But the sound of more footsteps thundering — Melody Anne