Florido Associates Quotes & Sayings

Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes. — Haruki Murakami

Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history. — Erik Larson

It is the surgeon's duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery. — Astley Cooper

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen. — Fritz Haber

She let Sicarius lead since he had that knack for getting people to move out of his way without doing anything. Amaranthe, on the other hand, received elbows in the ribs or suggestive jostles from drunken men. Maybe she should try wearing all black and glaring more often. — Lindsay Buroker

That which rules within, when it is according to nature, will always adapt itself easily to that which is possible and is presented to it. For it requires no definite material, in moving toward its purpose, but rather certain conditions; and it makes a material for itself out of that which opposes it, as a great fire lays hold of a mass that would have extinguished a tiny flame: when the fire is strong, it soon appropriates to itself the matter that is heaped on it and consumes it, rising higher by means of this very material. — Marcus Aurelius

If he knew anything of her habits, she was certain to be somewhere about. He was not looking for her. He was submitting himself to the possibility of encounter. — Patrick Hamilton

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine. — Ben Lerner