Lost Horizon 1937 Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather be a slave than a corpse. — Terry Pratchett

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams. — Anne Perry

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul. — George MacDonald

O the wind is a faun in the spring time
When the ways are green for the tread of the May!
List! hark his lay!
Whist! mark his play!
T-r-r-r-l!
Hear how gay! — Clinton Scollard

By the time he reaches the farm, he is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been the day before. He may not be certain what any of it means, but for now he does not think that it much matters. — Erin Morgenstern

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us. — Meg Wolitzer

No that's beside the point. I just decided to take instead of being taken. It's not a question of good or bad, wrong or right. It's just what I want to do.

Mitsuko Souma — Koushun Takami

Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy, intractable burden of bodies, the sheer tedium of our confinement in the flesh? — Paul Russell

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for ... — Lauren Oliver