Toshiro Hijikata Quotes & Sayings

You know nothing,' she said to him gravely, her voice so low that
the slightest noise from the street interrupted it, might carry her words
away, so that I found myself straining to hear her against myself as I
lay with my head back against the chair. 'And suppose the vampire
who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that
vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing,
and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until
there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no
knowledge.'
'Yes!' he cried out suddenly, his hands out, his voice tinged with
something other than anger. — Anne Rice

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form. — Al Gore

And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. — Daniel Defoe

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true. — Robert A. Heinlein

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf. — Andrew Solomon

I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen. — Edan Lepucki

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. — Paul Pearsall

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you. — Ben Jonson

She has the same pinched look as her mother did. She — Lauren Oliver

When Mother and I learned that Father was dying, Father asked me to sing for him," she said. "Mother insisted that I only sing songs from their youthful days together. She wanted me to take her mind off Father's pain, But when she stepped away, Father asked me to sing songs about pain. About loss. About the world without him. When I played those songs, he would cry. It was the only way he could cry. And now it's the only way I know to cry."

"We need you to lead us in crying, Lesyl, or we'll drown in unshed tears." [King Cal-Raven replied] — Jeffrey Overstreet