Dexter Everything Is Illuminated Quotes & Sayings

My dear nephew was only in his sixth year when I came to be detached from the family circle. But this did not hinder John and I from remaining the most affectionate friends, and many a half or whole holiday he was allowed to spend with me, was dedicated to making experiments in chemistry, where generally all boxes, tops of tea-canisters, pepper-boxes, teacups, &c., served for the necessary vessels, and the sand-tub furnished the matter to be analysed. I only had to take care to exclude water, which would have produced havoc on my carpet. — Caroline Herschel

When everything comes easily to you, it never challenges you to change. — Katie Kacvinsky

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind. — Isak Dinesen

I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner. — Thomas Carlyle

Oh, and I'm also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you're in St. Louis. — Richelle Mead

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs. — Abraham Cahan

hope and fear are just different aspects of the same submission to history. Sitting and istening to the same story, one can hope for a happy ending while another fears a tragedy. Neither is free. — Anonymous

How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in. — Rosie Thomas

the scarred face of a clone, the features an echo of so many faces from Vader's past. Rex. Cody. Fives. Echo. The roster of names moved through Vader's mind, each of them a trigger for a memory, each of them a ghost from his past. — Paul S. Kemp