Sonck Optiek Quotes & Sayings

The child came to a stop beside her mother and stared up at her face as if she had never seen it before. It was the face of the new misery she felt, but on her mother it looked old and it looked as if it might have belonged to anybody, a Negro or a European or to Powell himself. The child turned her head quickly, and past the Negroe's ambling figures she could see the column of smoke rising and widening unchecked inside the granite line of trees. She stood taut, listening, and could just catch in the distance a few wild high shrieks of joy as if the prophets were dancing in the fiery furnace, in the circle the angel had cleared for them. — Flannery O'Connor

I sort of like you," she said. "God knows why. You're weird as anything, and I hate the creepy way you lurk around following me. You could just ask me to go somewhere, you know."

"Like you'd go." Dion said.

"Not if I didn't want to."

"Then I'd have to try."

"What?" She looked him sharply in the eye.

"To make you want to. — Karen Romano Young

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse. — Faye Kellerman

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore De Balzac

Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we've had with money as a society - having money, talking about money - has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there's nothing wrong about giving it back. — Arpad Busson

One life may change the world. — Sarah J. Maas

Time passes: yesterday has gone for ever but tomorrow never comes. Let's make the most of today. — Robert Ashby

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. — Horace

The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather. — Kapil Dev

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. — Donna Tartt