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“He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.”
Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster
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“Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.”
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“When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.”
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“I'm a very controversial figure in the Christian world. I don't believe if you're gay or you have a drink or you dance, you're going to hell. I don't think that's the kind of God we have. The Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world are scary. I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.”
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“I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.”
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“She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.”
Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.350, Random House
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“The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.”
Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.39, A&C Black
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“Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make”
