Waystone Quotes & Sayings

There are children on the island who go barefoot all summer and wear feathers in their hair, the Volkswagen vans in which their parents arrived in the '70s turning to rust in the forest. Every year there are approximately two hundred days of rain. There's a village of sorts by the ferry terminal: a general store with one gas pump, a health-food store, a real-estate office, an elementary school with sixty students, a community hall with two massive carved mermaids holding hands to form an archway over the front door and a tiny library attached. The rest of the island is mostly rock and forest, narrow roads with dirt driveways disappearing into the trees. — Emily St. John Mandel

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all. — Taylor Momsen

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. — William Butler Yeats

I love deadlines," he said once. "I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.") He died in May 2001 - too young. His — Douglas Adams

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. — Charles B. Rangel

BE QUIET!! ... What do you want ... ? I was in the middle of saying something nice ... — Tite Kubo

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum. — Mo Ibrahim

You will walk a long road," said Morozko. "If you have not the courage to meet it, better - far better - for you to die quiet in the snow. Perhaps I meant you a kindness. — Katherine Arden

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. — Patrick Rothfuss

You see the world as fixed and finite, and it is not. It is liquid and ever moving, and one act can change everything. — A.C. Gaughen

But Mari, I just don't think I can justify a show-offish wedding. I've never been that sort of girl. I'm the 'Let's go to a third-world country and take care of orphans' kind of girl, you know? — Janice Thompson

IT WAS NIGHT AGAIN. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. The most obvious part was a hollow, echoing quiet, made by things that were lacking. If there had been a wind it would have sighed through the trees, set the inn's sign creaking on its hooks, and brushed the silence down the road like trailing autumn leaves. If there had been a crowd, even a handful of men inside the inn, they would have filled the silence with conversation and laughter, the clatter and clamor one expects from a drinking house during the dark hours of night. If there had been music . . . but no, of course there was no music. In fact there were none of these things, and so the silence remained. — Patrick Rothfuss

Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair. — Pete Dye

Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants. — Yuval Noah Harari