Senarath Paranavitana Quotes & Sayings

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world. — Andrea Barrett

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott

Hope, the great deceiver, seduced her that morning. — Rabih Alameddine

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel. — Hubert Selby Jr.

Over-attachment for one's close relatives is simply born of ignorance. Every creature in the world is born alone and dies alone. He experiences the results of his own good and evil deeds and in the end leaves the present body to accept another. The belief that one person is the relation of another is nothing more than illusion. — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Maybe his big build isn't a linebacker's after all; maybe it's a librarian's. — Robin Sloan