Neverwhere Summary Quotes & Sayings

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes. — Victor Hugo

On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Once I brought her some homework. In class she said my name. Then she was gone. That's pretty much all that happened. — Tony Abbott

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something. — Edward Ruscha

The best place to look at failure is in the rear-view mirror. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations. — Karl Weierstrass

For the first time she realized she'd spent so much time mourning a world that had ended ages ago, hoping to resurrect it, that she'd never paid attention to what it was becoming. Or returning to again, now that it was unfettered. Where were the centaurs, she might have asked instead. Where were the gorgons, the furies, the giants and the gods? — Brian Hodge

And if there is anything that appears like a miracle, the only explanation is that a scientific reason for it has not been discovered as yet. — Amish Tripathi

Christianity is wild. It's intimate. It's heartbreaking and soul-mending. It's the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come. — Steven James