Slights Changes Quotes & Sayings

We might even say that the world is always in medias res - a Latin phrase which means "in the midst of things" or "in the middle of a narrative" - and that it is impossible to solve any mystery, or find the root of any trouble, — Lemony Snicket

My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk ... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being. — T.H. White

Dating in England is different. First of all because English people don't like at all other people knowing them, and second, because English people are romantically impaired. — Angela Kiss

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star. — Marcel Proust

You are your own anchor, Ryke. When you fail, you hurt yourself more than anyone else. Do you want to keep burning or are you going to let yourself rise — Krista Ritchie

Computers double their performance every month. — Stephen Hawking

I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same thing. — Michael Cunningham

All of us groping in caverns, our fingertips raw against stone, searching for that slight crack, the edge of a door opening into love. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Marriage, family. What else is there? You had to grow up. You had to accept it. — Joyce Carol Oates

Endings are sad, aren't they?"
"Yes. — Jeanne Birdsall

This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it-or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if it afforded pleasure to one who read it with understanding. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one. — Racquel McDonnell

The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound. — Radclyffe Hall

Good lad. You did well, Spook. I'm proud. — Brandon Sanderson