Sophismata Quotes & Sayings

I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher. — R.S. Thomas

Do you know a way out of here?" I ask Ben. Sammy's more trusting than I am, but the idea's worth exploring. Finding the escape pods - if they even exist - has always been the weakest part of my getaway plan.
He nods. "Do you?"
"I know a way - I just don't know the way to the way."
"The way to the way? Okay." He grins. He looks like hell, but the smile hasn't changed a bit. It lights up the tunnel like a thousand-watt bulb. "I know the way and the way to the way. — Rick Yancey

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert

I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives. — Gregory Frost

I never realized how much of the pleasure of dining out is watching people, otherwise it feels like ordering in with better utensils. — Emma McLaughlin

He unfolded his arms and moved to the side. I was fine with that. Again with the glowering, though. Seen that, done it myself. So last year. — A.E. Jones

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself. — Susan Sontag

God is Holy.
God is pure.
God is faithful.
God is gracious.
God is merciful. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You may wonder why I'm not in the Hab right now. Because I fled in terror, that's why! And I'm not sure what the hell to do next. — Andy Weir

Change will happen slowly, however, unless women refuse to submit to conventional practices and begin to trust their own bodies. — Janet Balaskas

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out. — Renny Harlin