Eternels Tome Quotes & Sayings

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer. — Ned Vizzini

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. — Henri Nouwen

The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled was to be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony there must be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be in right relations with anything is to be in harmony with it. Again, if there is such a thing as being helled, shut off, separated from, there must be that something from which one is held, shut off, or separated. — Ralph Waldo Trine

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. — Anita Brookner

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. — Eric Hoffer

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers — W. Somerset Maugham

Hard writing makes easy reading. — Wallace Stegner

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? — Charles De Gaulle

A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union. — Rudolf Dreikurs