Ghostwood Quotes & Sayings

To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence. — Huineng

Memories haunted the Ghostwood, brittle as the twigs that splintered like tiny bones under Mark's boots. Sifting through drooping cedar boughs, the old wind muttered of things that waited in darkness without hope. To every question the Ghostwood had but one answer, made from sorrow, and loneliness, and time. — Sean Stewart

The story ended with a moral: Large Enterprises Depend Upon Small Details. Jeremy couldn't see why it couldn't have just as well been: It's Wrong To Trap Nonexistent Women in Clocks, or: It Would Have Worked With A Glass Spring. — Terry Pratchett

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson

If I'm going to die today, the least I can do is look fabulous while I'm doing it. — Joanne Harris

A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden. — Rumi

She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese. — Danielle Steel

Under the ground, in Munich, Germany, two people stood and spoke in a basement. It sounds like the beginning of a joke:

'There's a Jew and a German standing in a basement, right?...'

This, however, was no joke. — Markus Zusak

Then one day followed the next without the basic questions of life ever being solved. — Friederike Mayrocker

If you work hard and you learn and you absorb and you pay attention, career in food is great. This job can take you all around the world. You can eat the most delicious food. It allows you to be creative ... [And] don't ever quit. It's going to pay off eventually. It might not be in a year. Might be 20 years or 10 years. But you have to keep pushing. Just have that fire, have the passion, and want to be successful. And don't listen to anybody else. — April Bloomfield

I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If I have multiple personalities will I taste better to a zombie, or is the effort simply wasted?
I've talked it over with myself, and neither of us could agree if that is true or not!!! — Neil Leckman

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished. — Graham Swift

Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status. — Eugene Kennedy

He thought much but said little. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I will not mince words. There's been enough mincing for one day. Therefore, I shall ask my question bluntly: How does a man know that his body has been turned inside out? ... His eyes can see the back of his skull with an alarming clarity. I am told it hurts like hell. Especially when he refuses to explain why he has been investigating the hangman's replacement — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko