"An old novel has a history of its own."

-- Alexander Smith

#Fiction Quotes #Novel Quotes

“I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.”
“If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.”
“When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'”
“Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone?”
“The Light Queenâ€™s voice stilled the turbulent waves of my soul, singing calm and grace to every fiber of my being. Neamh. Ah, there, I was pissed off again”
“The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.”

Source : "Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company". Book by Michael Shawn Malone (p. 393), 2007.
“Often, I'm spending months with a person in a very intimate context, getting to know the ins and outs of what they ate for breakfast, not to mention dredging up the most traumatic experiences of their lives, digging through their documents and photographs from difficult times, all of that. And that process, I think, can be extraordinarily strange for subjects who've never been interviewed before, especially if you don't acquaint them from the get-go with what you're trying to do, what it entails, and why you care.”
“There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]”

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