Wytse Hylkema Quotes & Sayings

John Lewis Gaddis had come to visit shortly before the election and over lunch said something that resonated with me. "Never forget how really dependent the world is on America. And they know it. — Condoleezza Rice

He couldn't change the past, and he couldn't control the future. But he would beat the present into submission. — Joel Ohman

I won't be mad at you because you gave me something no one else has: the ability to live even when I thought I was dead. — Alexandria Hampton

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. — Leslie Stephen

Neverfell was tired, so very tired. Waiting in her room to learn of her fate, her mind kept dropping away into sleep for numb instants no longer than a blink. Next moment her thoughts would jar her awake again, thrashing and crashing and clattering like a monstrous waterwheel, turning and turning without end or purpose. She jerked and stared and barely knew where she was, dream pieces floating like iceberg shards across her half-waking mind. — Frances Hardinge

Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so. — Jack Schwartz

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy. — Jim Crace