Dom Casmurro Quotes & Sayings

God is the creature, not the creator. — Dan Simmons

As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now the fierce weeds pressed in to destroy the pampered nursling's of man. — George R. Stewart

Do you realise what you've done?" he says.
"I believe I just succeeded in using magic to pass your gate," I say. "Doesn't that make me an animagus? — Rae Carson

So many times you've taken my breath away or made it feel like my heart was trapped inside my stomach. But last night was more than any fourteen-year-old boy could handle. So I took your face in my hands and I kissed you, just like I've been dreaming of doing for over a year now. — Colleen Hoover

Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. — Pope Francis

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next. — Chris Cooper

Your integrity is more precious than your life. — Randall Dale Adams

The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight. — Walter Dean Myers

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools. — Estelle Morris

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book. — Eric Jerome Dickey