Turmalin Quotes & Sayings

The boy I once was is a stranger to me, and sometimes I wonder if terrible experiences are enough to change a person - I mean fundamentally to change a person's nature - or if they merely subdue it, and it endures there beneath, and will reassert itself in time. I wonder if I will be recognized by my family. If those I love will still know me. — Peter Hobbs

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. — Madame Roland

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break. — Jack Straw

When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it. — Aleksandar Hemon

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed. — Umberto Eco