Tom Syndicate Quotes & Sayings

However you disguise it, this thing does not change:
The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil. — T. S. Eliot

No, not ten, not seconds, everything's different there, space slips away, and time collapses sideways like a ragged wave, and everything spins, spins like a top: there, one second is huge, slow, and resonant, like an abandoned cathedral, another is tiny, sharp, fast
you strike a match and burn up a thousand millennia; a step to the side
and you're in another universe ... — Tatyana Tolstaya

We go in a skyscraper that's Paul's office, he says he's crazy busy but he makes a Xerox of my hands and buys me a candy bar out of the vending machine. Going down in the elevator pressing the buttons, I play I'm actually inside a vending machine. We go in a bit of the government to get Grandma a new Social Security card because she lost the old one, we have to wait for years and years. Afterwards she takes me in a coffee shop where there's no green beans, I choose a cookie bigger than my face. — Emma Donoghue

Anybody. She uses her body like I use the loose — Mario Puzo

In a place of all this beauty and potential ... we just repeat the same mistakes. Do we hate paradise so much we have to be sure it becomes a trash heap? — Patrick Ness

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. — Edward Everett Hale