Lusus Reserva Quotes & Sayings

There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do. — Michael Winter

My wife is already in Heaven. — Billy Graham

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you ... ' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush. — Helen Fielding

Killing of an innocent, alike killing of humanity. — Azhar Sabri

An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice. — Natalya Vorobyova

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does. — Louise Doughty

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy! — Joseph Conrad

it was "the hardest damn thing I ever did in my life. I don't care how many feathers a man wears in his hair, he's still a man. One of them, Red Legs, looked at me and said 'do you think this is fair? Would you sign such a paper?' and I could not meet his eyes. It made me sick. — Michael Crichton

Rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination — W.B.Yeats