My Last Landlady Quotes & Sayings

If there's one thing that the Web has changed about modern communication, it's that we've at long last done away with the archaic idea that publishing is the private playground of people who have ideas, experiences, and opinions. — Lore Sjoberg

That's all right, Neal thought. Every one of us is at least two people. — Don Winslow

This girl is everything to me, and I won't stop until I claim her completely. — Roxy Sloane

They used to call me Quicksilver," he whispered, smiling hollowly. "Fastest hands in the world." Then the smile vanished. his eyes flashed. And, like a silver of deadly mercury, he attacked ... — Darren Shan

He thought about history, the hidden human anxieties behind momentous events. The tiny trivial things that were probably bothering Einstein or Darwin or Newton as they formulated their theories: arguments with the landlady, maybe, or concern over a blocked fireplace. The pilots who bombed Dresden, fretting over a phrase in a letter from back home: What did she mean by that? Or what about Columbus, when he was sailing toward the New Land ... who knows what was on his mind? The last words spoken to him by an old friend, perhaps, a person not even remembered in history books ... — Michel Faber

Art and morality are, with certain provisos ... one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. — Iris Murdoch

I heard we see the world not as it is, but as we are. — Neil Gaiman

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways. — Wayne W. Dyer

And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out. — Terry Gross

A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance. — Pete Dexter

It is a great life, this life of music, — Ahmet Ertegun