Wuthering Heights Key Gothic Quotes & Sayings

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. — Paulette Jiles

Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times' ... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry. — Albert Goldbarth

The seamen had whitewashed the smoky ceilings of the ward, and that dear homely smell carried the vividness of thatch and lumpy walls and stew given from the goodness of a stranger's heart. But that was all there was of comfort, and the salt air had turned from cold to warm in the passing of a life, an afternoon. — Peter Carey

Hatred is the price that society extracts from its leaders for the honour, power and wealth it bestows unto them. — Awdhesh Singh

If you've got to think about it you probably shouldn't do it — Mary Carillo

Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world. — L. Tom Perry

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. — Immanuel Kant

Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.
And as theories go this was all very fine and pleasant until Veet Voojagig suddenly claimed to have found this planet, and to have worked there for a while driving a limousine for a family of cheap green retractables, whereupon he was aken away, locked up, wrote a book and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public. — Douglas Adams

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. — Glen Duncan

Sometimes what we think we need isn't what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts. — Philip Gulley

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. — William Drummond

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and- and if you're lucky, next week. — Garrison Keillor

It just seems like all men pale in comparison to the illusionist under my roof. — L. H. Cosway

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try. — Nikki Giovanni

I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face. — Sara Raasch