"Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Book Quotes #Winter Quotes #Night Quotes

“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldnâ€™t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”
“I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.”
“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”
“The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.”

Source : "Post Floor Speech Interview With Sen. Whitehouse". www.washingtontimes.com. December 21, 2009.
“We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!”
“You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.”
“Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?”
“The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can guide in our thought, we can have a prayer that travels wonderful things.”

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