Lisbeth Sao Quotes & Sayings

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense. — Joanna Scott

I was recruited by the dead,' Zak said. 'Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to understand what they might have thought and done that could survive them, that could speak across the ages, that could be continued even now. — Greg Egan

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out. — Roger Ebert

A state may well not survive its writers telling its people the truth. — Korney Chukovsky

She relaxed, fitting perfectly into my body. In the crisp, cold February air, we swayed together, moving to our own personal beat. For one moment, we escaped hell. No teachers, no therapist, no well-meaning friends, no nightmares-just the two of us, dancing. — Katie McGarry

Let whoever can win glory before death. — Seamus Heaney

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. — Samuel Garth

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. — William Faulkner