Pretentious Kneecaps Quotes & Sayings

God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.2 — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together. — John Tavener

In the cold you wrap me. in my uncertainty you listen. in all my joys you celebrate. at every turn you meet me with competence and grace. what a fine dance we have together. — Mary Anne Radmacher

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice. — Ouida

It is quite complicated, being civilised. — Robert Jackson Bennett

All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye? — Peter S. Beagle

I now knew a method of speaking and writing that - by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn't supposed to fail - sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object. — Elena Ferrante

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man. — Lawrence Block

We're not witches. We're the bogeymen and angels that walk the thin seam of the two worlds, like cats on high-wire beams.
Assassins. Peacekeepers. A secret government that's a two-way mirror. — Alyse M. Gardner