"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

-- Victor Hugo

#Past Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Reflexes Quotes

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
“Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.”

Source : Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.8, Penguin
“Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.”
“Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.”

Source : ""Something that's not yourself." - An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.
“Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.”
“'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.”
“If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.”
“My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh...”

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