Shaddens Quotes & Sayings

You didn't think I really liked you? Do you think I really like you now?"
He turned toward her, uncertainty in his face."You did go quite a lot of effort to be having this conversation, but ... I don't want to read too much of what I hope into that."
Val stretched out beside him, resting her head in the crook of his arm. "What do you hope?"
He pulled her close, hands careful not to touch her wounds as they wrapped around her. "I hope that you feel for me as I do for you," he said, his voice like a sigh against her throat.
And how is that?" she asked, her lips so close to his jaw that she could taste the salt of his skin when she moved them.
You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that."
She smiled and let her eyes drift closed. They lay there together, under the bridge, city lights burning outside the windows like a sky full of falling stars, as they slid off into sleep — Holly Black

If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young. — John Lyly

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion. — Bill Vaughan

Courage revealed itself in subtle ways, and often in your most vulnerable moments, when fear and the instinct for self-preservation urged you to flee and forsake others. — Kerry Alan Denney

Information can liberate but also imprisonate. — Jasper Fforde

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain. — Sun Tzu

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true
as much as can be known
but does not resist evils, knows nothing. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift ... The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another. — Jack Kerouac

It takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing, — William Faulkner

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. — T. S. Eliot

You blush. You are Charlotte's Web and I could love you. — Caroline Kepnes