Hattilibrary Quotes & Sayings

Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity. — Joyce Carol Oates

The ColU, sitting on its tabletop, seemed to Stef to twinkle. 'I'm Colius the Oracle now. — Stephen Baxter

Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing. — Julia Sweeney

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made. — Zadie Smith

There are no rules in writing. If the words work for you, use them. — Claire Contreras

It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief. — Thomas Reid