Eilenbergers Quotes & Sayings

Oh, and it's also Reaming Day, the day where the kids between the ages of twelve to eighteen are chosen to participate in the Hunger But Mainly DeathGames, which, as you might expect from the name, is a tournament in which kidsfight to the death, and occasionally experience hunger. — William Maxwell

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. — William Carlos Williams

In the beginning, there was movement. — Asanaro

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor. — John McGraw

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. — Haruki Murakami

Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies.
'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika. — Eva Ibbotson

you create your own happiness by the choices you make. If you rely completely on others, you'll never have it, at least not in the true sense of happiness. — Florence Osmund

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain. — Paulo Coelho

Just because Shangri-La may not exist doesn't mean we shouldn't keep looking for it, because maybe that's exactly where it does exist, in the striving. — Greg F. Gifune

There's a voice that says: "So what?"
It's not my voice, it's probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, which as always is a dangerous thing. "So what if a bunch of species go extinct?" It says. "Extinction is a natural process. Darwin himself said so, didn't he? Extinction is the complement of evolution, making room for new species to evolve. There have always been extinctions. So why worry about these extinctions currently being caused by humanity?" And there has always been a pilot light burning in your furnace. So why worry when your house is on fire? — David Quammen

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage — Josephine Hart