Diderot Jacques The Fatalist Quotes & Sayings

I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl. — Richard Laymon

We have our clothes, some more splendid than others, - this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin; — Alexandre Dumas

I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have always made my own jewelry. I particulary love emeralds and black diamonds, and I'm always wearing large cocktail rings. — Jade Jagger

Tracker Marks was of a different opinion. Though he seemed more white than a white man, he had no time for their ways. For him his dress, his deportment was no different than staying downwind in the shadows of trees when hunting, blending into the world of those he hunted, rather than standing out from it. Once he had excelled at the emu dance & the kangaroo dance; then his talent led him to the whitefella dance, only now no-one was left of his tribe to stand around the fire & laugh & praise his talent for observation & stealthy imitation.
The whites have no law, he told Capois Death, no dreaming. Their way of life made no sense whatsoever. Still, he did not hate them or despise them. They were stupid beyond belief, but they had a power, & somehow their stupidity & their power were, in Tracker Marks's mind, inextricably connected. But how? he asked Capois Death. How can power & ignorance sleep together? Questions to which Capois Death had no answer. — Richard Flanagan

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed. — Katherine Paterson

Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that. — Frederick Lenz