Eliford Quotes & Sayings

If you have anything, or if I have anything, it's because it's been given to us by our Creator. — David Green

Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream. — Katherine Mansfield

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that? — Patrick Rothfuss

A glass devil is a person in whom evil becomes transparent. People simply don't see it, despite the fact that it's there all the time. — Helen Tursten

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life. — Dallas Willard

One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could do nothing. — M.F. Moonzajer

My life, he will think, my life. But he won't be able to think beyond this, and he will keep repeating the words to himself - part chant, part curse, part reassurance - as he slips into that other world that he visits when he is in such pain, that world he knows is never far from his own but that he can never remember after: My life. — Hanya Yanagihara

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired. — Angela Phillips