Salyklas Quotes & Sayings

I'm sorry I started all this by trying to fly and I'd take it back if I could but I can't, so please think of it from my point of view: if you die I will have a dead brother and it will be me instead of you who suffers.
Justin thought of his brother on that warm summer day, standing up on the windowsill holding both their futures, light and changeable as air, in his outstretched arms.
Of course, Justin thought, I'm part of his fate just as he's part of mine. I hadn't considered it from his point of view. Or from the point of view of the universe, either. It's just a playing field crammed full of cause and effect, billions of dominoes, each knocking over billions more, setting off trillions of actions every second. A butterfly flaps its wings in Africa and my brother in Luton thinks he can fly.
The child nodded. A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen. — Meg Rosoff

More violence does not necessarily equate with greater religious conviction. — Maajid Nawaz

Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good, when by it thou art hindered from some other better work. — Marcus Aurelius

My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count. — Ralph Webster

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. — Henry David Thoreau

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. — Frank Herbert

Be a perpetual beginner. Always be inspired. It is that attitude of inspiration and belief that creates energy. — Frederick Lenz

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.'
'The time will come, dear, the time will come. — George Eliot