Osker Strangled Quotes & Sayings

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Haven't you offered up some part of your Self to someone (or something), and taken on a "narrative" in return? Haven't we entrusted some part of our personality to some greater System or Order? And if so, has not that System at some stage demanded of us some kind of "insanity"? Is the narrative you now possess really and truly your own? Are your dreams really your own dreams? Might not they be someone else's visions that could sooner or later turn into nightmares? — Haruki Murakami

There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much. — Patricia Lockwood

I love ... that elevator," she said.
With a sleepy smile and a full heart, he turned his head and kissed into her soft hair. "Aw, Red. I love that elevator, too. — Laura Kaye

...as to try to interest me about the less carnivora, when I know of what is before me."
"I see," I said. "You want big things that you can make your teeth meet in? How would you like to breakfast on an elephant? — Bram Stoker

No sound here but the river lapping hungry at the edge of the forest, the sigh of the wind in the leaves and the rasping drone of insects. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America. — William Allen White

I am black. What are you going to do about it? — Adrian Piper

Like a drop in the ocean, so a single person carries within themselves the universe surrounding them. — Terez Virag

A trial relied heavily on oaths, but both sides would bring as many liars as they could muster, and judgment usually went to the better liars or, if both sides were equally convincing, to the side who had the sympathy of the onlookers. — Bernard Cornwell

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity. — Mason Cooley

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman? — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience. — J.K. Rowling

Daniel understood the complaint. For Daniel, too, had once designed a building, and savored the thrill of seeing it built, only to endure the long indignity of watching the owner clutter it up with knick-knacks and furniture. — Neal Stephenson