Estleman Books Quotes & Sayings

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. — Thomas Carlyle

Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologist, she kicks my shin under the table. Because she makes me think about something other than myself. Because even when serious she shines. Because she prefers travelogues to Sir Walter Scott, prefers Billy Mayerl to Mozart, and couldn't tell a C major from a sergeant major. Because I, only I, see her smile a fraction before it reaches her face. Because Emperor Robert is not a good man - his best part is commandeered by his unperformed music - but she gives me that rarest smile, anyway. Because we listened to nightjars. Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning. Because a man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproof chambers of my heart. — David Mitchell

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man. — William Cowper

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them. — Matt Taibbi

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do? — Libba Bray

We have nothing but a history of our own invention to support this view. It suits us to believe it. It allows us to mistreat them, but convenience is not truth. — Bernard Beckett

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time. — Benjamin Hoff

The real fun of life is in laughing — Azhar Sabri

My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends. — Santosh Kalwar

Relationships are like broken glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together — Alex Haditaghi

Look, at some point, people have to tell their kids that Santa Claus isn't real. I hate to be the guy to do it, but it's just not real. — Floyd Landis

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future. — Richard M. Weaver

One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry, once fully developed, would be up to one hundred million times more powerful than the human brain.9 — Ray Kurzweil

They felt kind of like dolls, with Ali arranging their every move. — Sara Shepard

But my social circle had dwindled. Hell, all I had was a social dot - just me on a one man continuum. — Jeremy Robert Johnson