Necropastoral Quotes & Sayings

We have the future now," she whispered. "Does it matter that we've wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past? — Anne Rice

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis. — Jana Novotna

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty. — Shirley Maclaine

Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him. — Matshona Dhliwayo

At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life? — Fredrik Backman

A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you. — John Irving

The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable. — Joyelle McSweeney

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it! — Charles Dickens

Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted. — Tamzin Outhwaite

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments. — Benjamin Carson

Much of my unassisted self, and more by the help of Biddy than of Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, I struggled through the alphabet as if it had been a bramble-bush; getting considerably worried and scratched by every letter. After that, I fell among those thieves, the nine figures, who seemed every evening to do something new to disguise themselves and baffle recognition. But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale — Charles Dickens