Shadow House The Gatering Quotes & Sayings

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. — Russell Baker

That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it. — Daniel Handler

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. — Luc De Clapiers

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship. — Asa Don Brown

I stopped right in the middle of the road. There was no traffic. Before heading back towards my flat to get the number I paused for a while, I don't know how long, and stood in what had been the marksmen's sightlines. I turned the palms of my hands outwards, closed my eyes and thought about that memory of just before the accident, being buffeted by wind. Remembering it sent a tingling from the top of my legs to my shoulders and right up into my neck. It lasted for just a moment-but while it did it felt not-neutral. I felt different, intense: both intense and serene at the same time. I remember feeling this way very well: standing there, passive, with my palms turned outwards, feeling intense and serene. — Tom McCarthy

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally. — Elena Anaya

So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment. — Augusten Burroughs

I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast. — Laura Donnelly

Preserve the President's options. He may need them. — Donald Rumsfeld

Deception sneaks in through the window of pride. — Evinda Lepins

Sometimes we don't have a choice in where we come from, but we can definitely choose where we go from there. — Faraaz Kazi

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark. — Jacques Rigaut

Lena: Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have a power.
Ethan: Maybe you just have to fall for one. — Kami Garcia

My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe. — Jim Harrison