Cagaster Quotes & Sayings

They stopped at one of these half-tank houses ... where they were greeted by a young girl, who herself seemed like no more than a child.
- We have come to enquire after Absalom ... Have you heard nothing from him?
Nothing, she said.
When will he return? he asked.
I do not know, she said.
Will he ever return? he asked, indifferently, carelessly.
I do not know she said. She said it tonelessly, hopelessly, as one who is used to waiting, to desertion. She said it as one who expects nothing from her seventy years upon the earth. No rebellion will come out of her, no demands, no fierceness. Nothing will come out of her at all save the children of men who will use her, leave her, forget her. — Alan Paton

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you. — Jeanie Thompson

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it. — W. H. Auden

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of. — Gus Van Sant

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. — Natalie Goldberg

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts. — Rachel Weisz