Xliii Quotes & Sayings

Through this image he had a glimpse of a strange dark cavern of speculation but at once turned away from it, feeling that it was not yet the hour to enter it. But the nightshade of his friend's listlessness seemed to be diffusing in the air around him a tenuous and deadly exhalation and he found himself glancing from one casual word to another on his right or left in stolid wonder that they had been so silently emptied of instantaneous sense until every mean shop legend bound his mind like the words of a spell and his soul shrivelled up, sighing with age as he walked on in a lane among heaps of dead language. His own consciousness of language was ebbing from his brain and trickling into the very words themselves which set to band and disband themselves in wayward rhythms:
The ivy whines upon the wall
And whines and twines upon the wall
The ivy whines upon the wall
The yellow ivy on the wall
Ivy, ivy up the wall.
Did any one ever hear such drivel? — James Joyce

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal. — Brandon Sanderson

Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him. — Rocky Marciano

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women. — Andy Weir

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it. — Randy Jackson

The descent beckons
as the ascent beckoned — William Carlos Williams

CHAPTER XLIII PERSECUTION — Anthony Trollope

If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word. — Muriel Siebert

Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest. — Robert Southwell

I love Shakespeare, but sometimes ... his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head ... — John Geddes

Head held high, she stepped toward the block and sank to her knees, and it was then that Akiva started to scream. His voice soared over the pandemonium - a scream to scour the souls of all gathered, a sound to drive ghosts from their nests. — Laini Taylor

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

CHAPTER XLIII WHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE ARTFUL DODGER GOT INTO TROUBLE — Charles Dickens

Who loves a lot, forgives a lot. — Amado Nervo

The impact of relationships can be subtle yet powerful. Make a conscious effort to them choose wisely. — Mensah Oteh

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge. — Austin Osman Spare