Oknation Quotes & Sayings

If you control the cause you own the effect. If you don't, events will unfold like dominoes toppling and you will have no one to blame but yourself. — Karen Marie Moning

There seemed no motion, no rhythm, in all the world, but that which I had set up, between her legs, with one wet fingertip. — Sarah Waters

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one. — Imre Kertesz

My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the '70s, so she was very experimental, and, well - thank God we had a dog. — Debi Mazar

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. — Nicolaus Copernicus

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes. — Moira Young

It must be dawn, and the last breath went out of this body on the table - how long before? Irretrievably gone from this world, as dead as though she had lived a thousand years ago. Men have cut the isthmus of Panama and joined the two oceans; they have bored tunnels that run below rivers; built aluminum planes that fly from Frisco to Manila; sent music over the air and photographs over wires; but never, when the heartbeat of their own kind has once stopped, never when the spark of life has fled, have they been able to reanimate the mortal clay with that commonest yet most mysterious of all processes; the vital force. And this man thinks he can - this man alone, out of all the world's teeming billions! ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

But London didn't care, she never does when you leave her because she knows for every one that leaves another two arrive. Besides, she was too busy painting on her neon lipstick and dolling herself up in red and gold. — Ben Aaronovitch

It's the moment you think you can't, that you can — Celine Dion