Pinkerton Academy Quotes & Sayings

I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link. — Denis Napthine

Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader. — Charles Stross

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated — Dean Cavanagh

That was how you did it. You let go, you left all that behind, you refused to remember. You let the dark in. — Janet Fitch

Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19]. — Sylvia Boorstein

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other. — Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded. — Dorianne Laux

It [Badger's House] seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest House with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment. The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glaces with each other; plates of the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction. — Kenneth Grahame

Whereever you go we will share the same sky — Y.Odabasi