"It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning, an incantation murmured under the breath as the torchlights sink lower and the forest looms taller and the wolves howl louder and the fire prepares for its submission to the encroaching dark."

-- John Lanchester

#Memories Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”

Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”
“Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.”
“I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.”

Source : Daniil Kharms, Neil Cornwell (1993). “Incidences”, Serpents Tail
“In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained. 'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together.”
“Sarah lied about me. I never made the offer which she said I did. I will not advise you to break up your family - unless it were asked of me. Then I would council you to get a bill from your wife and marry a virtuous woman - and a new family but if you do not do it I shall never throw it in your teeth.”
“A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, its the best feeling in the world.”
“Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray”

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