Laissant Tout Quotes & Sayings

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger. — Nelson DeMille

I feel terribly strange, like a shadow, and full of dread. I dread the time ahead, the amputating time, I do not see how to manage it. I do not want the world to go dark and narrow and mean, and the world has been very unlovely in my eyes, and I very unlovely in it ... — Martha Gellhorn

The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame. — Lorrie Moore

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl. — Albert Camus

And so we gain hope - not from the darkness of our suffering, not from pat answers in books, but from the God who sees our suffering and shares our pain. — Eugene H. Peterson

Hospital" turned out to represent a punctuated tedium, the recurrence of blood pressure and temperature checks, the placement and emptying of bedpans and painful switching of IV lines from the crook of one elbow to the other, and the switching of nurses as day and night were destroyed and replaced with tripartite shifts. — Jonathan Lethem

Egypt tasted as Eleanor remembered: gritty, dry, and full of a hundred thousand secrets. She licked her lips and peered down the long corridor before her. A shadow moved across the ancient tomb walls. — E. Catherine Tobler

Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night. — Luis Marques

Spirit is the only truth within us, the rest is all untruth. — Nirmala Srivastava

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one. — Lauren Willig

Unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning — William Carlos Williams

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as
and often even believed to be
benevolence. — Michael J. Sullivan

You never had me, Keaton, but I always had you. — Courtney Lane