Craske Quotes & Sayings

In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, "This is land," and point, and "This is sky," and point, but the eyes can't discover the dividing line. — Helen Oyeyemi

I try something new out on him, something I've been thinking, or wondering whether I think: "I'm really not afraid to die," I say. "Not anymore. Something's changed." "Well," he says, "I'm sure your feelings about that will continue to evolve as you get older. As you see more death around you and things happen to your body. But I hope you always feel that way. — Lena Dunham

He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back. — Ann Patchett

The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity. — Frederick Lenz

Now the road was crossing orange groves in flower, and the nuptial scent of the blossoms absorbed the rest as a full moon does a landscape; the smell of sweating horses, the smell of leather from the carriage upholstery, the smell of Prince and the smell of Jesuit, were all cancelled out by that Islamic perfume evoking houris and fleshly joys beyond the grave. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you. — Hesiod

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. — Graham Swift

I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us. — Christopher Hitchens

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody. — Brendan O'Carroll

But that was the thing about people. You could see the type of person they were on the outside, but in reality, everybody had an internal battle to fight. — Barbara C. Doyle

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes. — Aidan Chambers