Gonzague Lurton Quotes & Sayings

Writing is the equivalent to a striptease. — Kit Yan

These days, faith is a lot like Wisconsin: a series of repetitive ups and downs, the natural rise and fall of the road that stretches before you. Boring. Beautiful. Ridiculous sometimes, as when the road eases into the Wisconsin Dells and there are suddenly giant plastic animals and water slides and a huge haunted mansion tilted along the road. — Addie Zierman

But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul. — Peter Lombard

I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not going to change the fact that at home I'm going to put away the clean dishes, and I'm going to have to be nice to my siblings. It encourages me, but it doesn't define me. — Bethany Dillon

That's just it. I'm the first. And if my venture goes well, and I return to record it, many others will follow after me. There will be a new era between djinn and men. I've made some of the notes already, Rekhyt-my book will take pride of place in every library on the Earth. I won't be there to see it-but who knows, perhaps you will. — Jonathan Stroud

The Society music plays around and over us, but our thoughts are our own. — Ally Condie

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. — Midori Goto

How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him? — Milan Kundera

If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself. — John Duover

look at the world with quiet eyes. — Sharon Salzberg

O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on! — John Greenleaf Whittier

Order is the cipher by which Mind speaks to mind in the midst of chaos. — Ronald Knox

I don't smile. My smiles don't make people relax. — Karen Marie Moning

Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life. — Kami Garcia

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had. — Deb Caletti