Mustatia Quotes & Sayings

Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning. — Fennel Hudson

There was no smell. Over the years time other than when it rained, the musty odour was present. People were in and out of that house daily for years. And other than when it rained, there was no odour and certainly not like what some of the books said. That's all fantasy. If that odour was there somebody would have noticed it sooner. — John Wayne Gacy

Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion. — Thomas Harris

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back. — John Green

The quality of mercy — William Shakespeare

Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It pays to be nice. Maybe not right away, but someday. — Tom Angleberger

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones. — E.M. Delafield

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world. — Francis Thompson

Fifty-five thousand, five hundred and seventy-three dead from Bomber Command. Seven million German dead, including the five hundred thousand killed by the Allied bombing campaign. The sixty million dead overall of the Second World War, including eleven million murdered in the Holocaust. The sixteen million of the First World War, over four million in Vietnam, forty million to the Mongol conquests, three and a half million to the Hundred Years War, the fall of Rome took seven million, the Napoleonic Wars took four million, twenty million to the Taiping Rebellion. And so on and so on and so on, all the way back to the Garden when Cain killed Abel. — Kate Atkinson

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way. — Emmylou Harris

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush