Dauteur Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is wanting. Jesus, Jesus he says, but he's not praying to Jesus, he's praying to you, not to your body or your face but to the space you hold at the centre, which is the shape of the universe. Empty. — Margaret Atwood

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell. — Patrick Ness

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories. — Duff Goldman

A nine-year-old girl, just a kid, and yet there was something ageless in her eyes - not a child, not an adult - just an ongoing everness, that same pinprick of absolute lasting light that I see today in my own eyes as Timmy smiles at Tim from the graying photographs of that time. — Tim O'Brien

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool. — Tina Fey

A wise traveller never despises his own country. — Carlo Goldoni

Wow. Being responsible sure takes it out of you. This calls for a Pop-Tart. — Jenny B. Jones

Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions ... He learns by watching. — Ally Condie

SAYING AND CONCEALING For I would prefer to have these attacks and please you, rather than displease you and not have them. - Marcel Proust in a letter to his mother — Alice Miller

What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave, — Liane Moriarty