Passage To India Echo Quotes & Sayings

Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand under her ear and the other half-open on the coverlet as if she thought in her sleep that someone would come and lay happiness in her palm. — Halldor Laxness

Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours. — Patrick Ness

Since love first made the breast an instrument
Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart
Was molten to a mirror, like a rose
I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang
This mirror in your sight
Gaze you therein — Muhammad Iqbal

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little. — Dan O'Brien

We'd go to bed furious with each other, and then she'd wake me in the middle of the night and come and lie on my bed and we'd talk for hours, about nothing and everything, and she'd let me touch the scars on her stomach - the scars from where they cut me out of her. — Melina Marchetta

In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons
at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience. — John Updike

We find beauty in poison, and we love the bitter taste. — Cole McCade

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last. — Harriet Martineau

I cannot write the way some persons want to read my writings, my thoughts of mind do the job. — Jan Jansen