Pecks Lake Quotes & Sayings

There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure. — Stacey D'Erasmo

It was man who first made men believe in gods. — Critias

Arin would trade his heart for a snarled knot of thread if it meant he would never have to see Kestrel again. — Marie Rutkoski

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together. — Sylvester Stallone

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. — Iris Murdoch

The pianist smiled at him, a smile of amusement with only the barest hint of apology. And not the least bit of shame. Fuck.
No ... not that. Anything but that . Whatever hope had been in Kingsley's heart a second earlier shattered and died like the last stray note of a symphony. The old love, the old desire coursed through his veins and into his heart, and there was no stopping it. He met the blond pianist's eyes - the priest's eyes - and released the breath he'd forgotten he'd been holding.
"Mon Dieu ... "
My God. — Tiffany Reisz

rejoice and make a fool of yourself for God the way lovers have always made fools of themselves for the one they love." - Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words — Richard J. Foster

I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have. — Ruthie Henshall

IT'S HARD not pushing people and not throwing sand at them. — Allie Brosh

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be ... — Antoine Lavoisier

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said. — Steve Vai

She reflected that if anything was going to be resolved, it would be resolved in the car. Afterward she would no longer have the strength. She would finally abandon herself, without remorse, to her translations, to the books whose pages she dissected by day and night, to earn her living and fill the holes dug by time. — Paolo Giordano

I'd rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone. — Marco Roth

When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan