Fobbit Book Quotes & Sayings

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women. — Carl Jung

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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

you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole. — Banana Yoshimoto

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty — John F. Kennedy

Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer. — Pope Pius XII

If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all that, I didn't consciously write the book with a particular moral intent. I took what I experienced and processed it through the sausage factory of fiction. It's up to readers to interpret what's on the page - as is the case with any novel. — Dave Abrams

He still read copy as if it were Braille; bumps in the language letting him know when — Mick Herron

Am I grave?', he asked. 'I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear.'
'You look as if you were taking me to a funeral. If that's a grin, your ears are very near together. — Henry James

There aren't terrible ideas. Just ideas done terribly. — Maggie Stiefvater

A howl is as infectious to a wolf as a yawn is to a human. — Kevin Ansbro

And as they drifter up their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.
Physics shook its head and, looking the other way, concentrated on keeping the cards going along the Euston Road and out over towards the Westway flyover, on keeping the street lights lit and on making sure that when somebody on Baker Street dropped a cheeseburger it went splat on the ground. — Douglas Adams

In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind? — Elie Wiesel

I wrote a letter to my Dad - I wrote, "I really enjoy being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I wrote, "I rarely drive steamboats, Dad - there's a lot of stuff you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator." This letter took a harsh turn right away. — Mitch Hedberg