Levinia Reynolds Quotes & Sayings

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost. — Sophie Swetchine

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees. — Lawrence Block

Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to the grave. Who said that? She couldn't remember now. But it was true. They were born dying. If they were very lucky, the dying was called aging. They reached toward if as if they were satellites in unstable orbits. And then when they got there, they were just dead. One moment in time separated the living from the ghosts. — Michelle Sagara West

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. — Doug Larson

Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was looking for. (Nora) — Becca Fitzpatrick

Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality. — Steffan Piper

wakened by pain
from a dream of pain
I wipe the sweat
and rose petals
scatter — Shiki Masaoka

You know how to fire this?" he asked.
Thomas took Ulysses's gun. It looked absurdly large in his thin hands, but he released the safety like a professional. "My father taught me," he explained.
"Good." Ulysses turned to the man kneeling before him. "This boy's in charge now. You'll do as he says. If you don't
as you can see, his father taught him how to shoot you. — Cameron Stracher

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. — John Drinkwater

They could only stare at Esme's shoes and wonder why she as wearing footwear that was so violent and impractical. — Lemony Snicket

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it
he knew better how to use his money than that. — Hans Christian Andersen

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. — Spiro T. Agnew