Greenmantle Quotes & Sayings

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes. — Wilferd Peterson

Do you know what keeps poor people down, Mr. Parrish? It's not a lack of income. It's a poverty of imagination. The trailer park dreams of the suburbs, and the suburbs dreams of the city, the city dreams of the stars, so on and so forth. The poor can imagine the throne, but not being kingly. Poverty of imagination. — Maggie Stiefvater

Even so, when the framework of the world is dissolved, and the final hour, closing so many ages, reverts to pristine chaos, then the fiery stars will drop into the sea, and the earth will shake off the ocean...and the whole distracted firmament will overthrow its laws. — Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable. — Doris Lessing

Greenmantle took a swig of the wine directly fromt he bottle - when he'd selected it from the kitchen, he hadd thought it would look more aesthetically pathetic and desperate than carrying a solitary glass, and it did. — Maggie Stiefvater

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair. — Allen Wheelis

It is perhaps true that the criminal who embraces a holy cause is more ready to risk his life and go to extremes in its defense than people who are awed by the sanctity of life and property. — Eric Hoffer

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion. — Geoffrey Beene

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience. — Charlie Huston

As the black wasp landed on his wrist, he told himself not to slap it. It stung him. "Bitch!" he said, and swung the wine bottle at it. Another wasp joined the first. Greenmantle shook his arm, dislodging it, but a third flew at him. A fourth, a fifth, a hallway-full of them. They were all over him. He was wearing a beautiful jacket, and boxers, and wasps. — Maggie Stiefvater

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half. — Mark Zandi

Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts. — Alexander MacLaren

She drifted towards the bedroom, on her way to have a bath or take a nap or start a war. — Maggie Stiefvater

It said, Qui facit per alium facit per se.
Greenmantle knew the proverb.
He who does a thing by the agency of another does it himself. — Maggie Stiefvater