"She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth."

-- Henry James

#Blue Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.”

Source : Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.”
“Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.”
“To think is not enough, you must think of something.”

Source : Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.138, Tin House Books
“The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.”
“The Internet, I'm trying to point out, is a kooks' paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing, and just plain asinine ideas among hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button. Discouraging, but true.”
“Success is an accident. Showing up, even if itâ€™s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.”
“Just because I choose to question religion doesn't mean that I'm spitting in God's face; it's the opposite. I'm tired of people spitting in God's face. I'm tired of seeing these divisions over a different type of Christianity, over a different type of Islam.”

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