Netted Canopy Quotes & Sayings

Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to despise the icy serenity of their earlier relations. And he knew that he should not love her, for she had been someone else whom he was supposed to love differently. -What is loneliness? Does the lonely space between two rocks vanish when spanned by a spider web? — William T. Vollmann

The only object of liberty is life. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too. — Virgil Miller Newton

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures. — Sergei Lukyanenko

When everyone lives only for self, life doesn't work. — Erika Mathews

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City. — Richard Price

His wife was disappearing from life like a wet mark drying on a shirt. — Paolo Giordano

But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort. She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not. — Herman Melville

Your penis will not shrivel up and die if you admit you want an umbrella instead of standing in the rain acting like a little water never hurt anyone. It's an unbrella, not a purse. — Jenny O'Connell

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me. — Margaret Mahy

Vertue never growes old. — George Herbert

Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices. — Norm MacDonald

Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it — Steve Pavlina

Those who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate it look for ever more-clever ways to acquire it without inciting resistance. One of those ways is the spreading of an elaborate ideology of statism, which teaches that the people are the state and that therefore they are only paying themselves when they pay taxes. — Sheldon Richman