Tervalo Quotes & Sayings

At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn't worked. It's a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage - even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity. — Terry Pratchett

My spirit does not love yours - it is entwined with it. Our flesh does not love: our flesh is the same, and longs to leap to itself. It must do that, or wither! — Sarah Waters

Honesty is a good thing,
but it is not profitable
to its possessor unless
it is kept under control. — Don Marquis

You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life. — Anthony Trollope

The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent. — Francois Hollande

We're all travelling heavy with illusions. — Sherman Alexie

Looking around the tight confines of her first home on Mars, it suddenly seemed to her that the walls were moving
beating very lightly
a kind of standing wave of double vision, as if she were standing in the low morning light looking through a temporal stereopticon, which revealed all four dimensions at once with a pulsating, hallucinatory light. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day. — Kate Reardon