Huck Finn Themes Quotes & Sayings

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. — Amy Lowell

meant they had room to manoeuvre. But — Tom Barber

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. — Charles Baudelaire

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen.
[Lat., Quod medicorum est
Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.] — Horace

(Al to Pierce) "You will make sure that nasty demon Ku'Sox doesn't kill her," Al said conversational y. "Understand? You're angry, but you still like her, yes? Want to have wild demon sex with her even if she ruined your attempt to kill me? Keep her alive, and you might get some. Eh? Eh? You'd like that, mmmm? — Kim Harrison

Lunchtime choices are small, subtle public acts that allow you to set yourself apart within the restrictive office environment. — Harry Wallop

What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It's thinking! — Brian Tracy

Nimmie, when I realized that I was a sinner, that I could do nothing myself to atone for my sins, I did the only thing one can do - that is necessary to do. I accepted what God has provided for all of mankind - His forgiveness. His forgiveness through the death of His Son, Jesus. He died for our sins so that we need not die for our own. I don't understand that kind of love either, Nimmie. But I know that it's real, for I have felt it. When I prayed to God and asked for His forgiveness and took His Son as my Savior, that love filled my whole person. Where I had had misery and fear before, now I have peace and joy." "And He would do that for me? — Janette Oke

I read Norman Lock's The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain's original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy - and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America's greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive. — David Oshinsky

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer? — Rachel Caine