Hagley Library Quotes & Sayings

Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed
The ebb-tide leaves dry.
We will gaze, from the sand-hills,
At the white, sleeping town;
At the church on the hill-side
And then come back down.
Singing: There dwells a loved one,
But cruel is she!
She left lonely for ever
The kings of the sea.
(from poem 'The Forsaken Merman') — Matthew Arnold

As far as the 'Mad Men' thing, I love 'Mad Men.' It's one of my favorite shows; I think it's an amazing series. — Michael Mosley

I don't define myself by boys who may or may not like me. — Rick Riordan

The writer's job is to tell the truth, — Ernest Hemingway,

My writings are the mirror of my soul and the dance of my mind. — Debasish Mridha

Their smiles were cracking. Glass is brittle. — Robert Bloch

If you're not careful
you'll end up believing this is the world — Antonio Cisneros

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. — George Santayana

there is nothing real or true that is timeless — Lee Smolin

Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all.
It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love. — Richard Brautigan

I do have a heart. A big, messy, bleeding-like-a-volcano heart. If you pulled it out of my chest, it would be covered in escaped butterflies and black holes and weeds that look like flowers. — Amy Zhang

Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon. — Tom Robbins

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day's work had hardly involved more than collecting a large number of question marks. — Henning Mankell

Python is much more like a dog, loving you unconditionally, having a few key words that it understands, looking you with a sweet look on its face (), and waiting for you to say something it understands. — Charles Severance