Gandras Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. — Josh Billings

When I met Thanatos," [Hazel] said, "you know ... Death ... he told me I wasn't on your list of rogue spirits to capture. He said maybe that's why you were keeping your distance. If you acknowledged me, you'd have to take me back to the Underworld."
Pluto waited. "What is your question?"
"You're here. Why don't you take me to the Underworld. Return me to the dead?"
Pluto's form started to fade. He smiled, but Hazel couldn't tell if he was sad or pleased. "Perhaps that is not what I want to see, Hazel. Perhaps I was never here." (226) — Rick Riordan

I just can't imagine a Heaven without children!-What a dead lifeless place without babies and kids! — David Berg

Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal — V. Pain

The most devoted complete a 25-mile run every day for a thousand consecutive days. They wear straw sandals and carry a knife at their waist, to be used to kill themselves should they fail to continue. After five years, they conduct a nine-day fast, after which their senses are heightened to such a degree that they can hear ash fall from an incense stick. In the seventh year of their pilgrimage, the monks undertake the "Great Marathon" of 52.5 miles a day every day for a year. — Scott Jurek

Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.
He's okay for now. — Gary D. Schmidt

There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain. — Eoin Colfer

Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that. — Dennis Green

I am half agony, half hope. — Jane Austen

Those who stop being better stop being good. — Oliver Cromwell