Mudge Island Quotes & Sayings

But I can tell you what Libby's eyes look like.

They are like lying in the grass under the sky on a summer day. You're blinded by the sun, but you can feel the ground beneath you, so as much as you think you could go flying off, you know you won't. You're warmed from the inside and from the outside, and you can still feel that warmth on your skin when you walk away. — Jennifer Niven

Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any. — Lindsey Kelk

Truth is in things, and not in words. — Herman Melville

I like to count myself as someone who doesn't follow that stuff and someone who's just trying to invent stories and characters and movies that are just funny and work because they're good and not because they're a slight variation that were hot a few months ago. — Scot Armstrong

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them. — Stu Grimson

and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one — Napoleon Hill

If a person were to concentrate all his will power on a certain end, then he would achieve it. That's all. — Hermann Hesse

Whereas Rosa's lips were full and lush, her mother's were thin and pinched in an expression that hinted at pain so long suppressed and hidden that in hiding from the world, the pain had become second nature. — Michael Rowe

The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile. — Khaled Hosseini

While most are dreaming of success, winners wake up and work hard to achieve it. Anything worth having is hard work. — JB Lexington

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go. — Robert W. Service

husk of a vanished person. — Marie Rutkoski

It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that 'good' men in positions of power will produce evil, while the ordinary man without power but able to engage in voluntary cooperation with his neighbors will produce good, requires analysis and thought, subordinating emotions to the rational. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

I looked around the room, at everyone who inhabited the space, person and monster, slave and master, aware we were in the madness together, swirling around in the same mess, all out to get something, a piece of our own pie. But I knew that in the midst of that noxious stew, coming to terms with our poisons was only the beginning.
Ever forward, Cecile's voice replayed in my mind. Ever forward. — Rachael Wade