Famous Chiasmus Quotes & Sayings

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins. — Jonathan Agnew

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Fairy, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years. — James Stephens

He met my gaze then. We were sitting very close. The irises of his eyes were amazingly clear and brown, like some exotic spice dissolved in brandy. You need a challenge, he had told me, and I found it right there in his gaze, along with the promise that not only was I going to lose but I would enjoy it.
-Ella's thoughts — Lisa Kleypas

You know Boosha, of course." "Yeah," Lena says. "What is she, exactly?" "Eccentric," Jett answers immediately and without further explanation. — Matt Wallace

Everyone is silent, under the spell of the song. But it is strange: that desperate sorrow and that bitter reproach with which it throbs are sweeter than the most sublime, most passionate joy. — Ivan Bunin

N artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty. — William Dean Howells