Mephistophelian Clue Quotes & Sayings

Life could have been different if the meetings which have decided its course had been less silent, superficial or routine, if more thoughts had been exchanged, if humanity had been more able to show itself in them — Theodore Zeldin

You kneel beside her, breathing the familiar smell of Sasha's sleep, whispering into her ear some mix of I'm sorry and I will never leave you, I'll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life, until the water pressing my shoulders and chest crushes me awake and I hear Sasha screaming into my face: Fight! Fight! Fight! — Jennifer Egan

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right? — Nicholas Sparks

The problem with all numinous things is that you can't just take somebody's word about them, especially the ones you're warned away from. You have to look at them, eventually, to know they're really there. You look at them even though you know it's not a good idea to. You can't not. In the end, you will always look at the thing you're told not to just because it exists, if only to prove it exists. — Gemma Files

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. — Robert Orben

She smells like angels ought to smell, the perfect woman ... the Goddess. Goldie. She says her name is Goldie. — Frank Miller

He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it. — Judith Arnold

It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do. — Jon Foreman

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live. — Ravi Zacharias

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process
it is, after all, black magic. — Edward Albee

A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and resulting strength, nothing can withstand its progress. It carves canyons, moves great boulders, erodes the soil, moving insistently onward in its surging need to reach its final goal - the ocean. — Laura Gilpin

I think people see me as someone very much associated with political agreement and, probably more than anything else, being able to build a relationship with loyalist leaders Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson. — Martin McGuinness

The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years. — Nils-Axel Morner