Sanctorum Book Quotes & Sayings

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates. — John Ruskin

seemed to her that such a one abdicated all claim to enjoy the fruits of those friendly relations with people of good position which prudent parents cultivate and store up for their children's benefit, for my great-aunt had actually ceased to 'see' the son of a lawyer we had known because he had married a 'Highness' and had thereby stepped down - in her eyes - from the respectable position of a lawyer's son to that of those adventurers, upstart footmen or stable-boys mostly, to whom we read that queens have sometimes shewn their favours. — Marcel Proust

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself. — Cyril Tourneur

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency. — Donald Knuth

It's a sadness that has been knocking at my door for a long time, and I finally let it in. — Francisco X Stork

The man turned away from Bobby, and the finality with which he did it made me glance at Bobby to see if he had disappeared as a result. — James Dickey

My mom is really tough. — Lindsey Vonn

I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened. — Ben Lerner