Nikolaevich Quotes & Sayings

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them. — Patrick Ness

I didn't expect the water to be this high — Jill Shalvis

I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it? — Alexei Nikolaevich

Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us! — Alexei Nikolaevich

Why aren't I like other boys? — Alexei Nikolaevich

On this voyage, you will witness the marvels that this city has brought the world. It — Jarrett J. Krosoczka

So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option). — Salman Rushdie

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted. — Rachel Cohn

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. — Mae West

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control. — Alexei Nikolaevich

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead — Alexei Nikolaevich

But Zeus did not tell Aphrodite that age was catching up on him. And that Gods, just as Mortal men, suffered from Erectile Dysfunction. And that the daily harvesting of his sperm sacs by Hera & Themis in order to provide three amphoras full of seed had not helped.
And that thus, he, just as all those who suffered from Erectile Dysfunction, actually preferred catching oysters & eating them rather than deflowering the owners of the oysters. And thus, the Big Crunch that had been planned, now risked becoming the Big Bathos, the Big Let Down. — Nicholas Chong

Always somewhere there was light, and, though transient, it flashed all the more brilliantly because of the surrounding dark. — Vaddey Ratner

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up. — Pharrell Williams

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI — J.D. Robb

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama? ... When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods. — Alexei Nikolaevich

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. — Patrick Rothfuss

Her voice carried the voices of a hundred thousand souls in it; a whole history of resistance and rage moved with her. — Daniel Jose Older