Quotes
Authors
Erin Morgenstern
"Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?†Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. “Because I do not wish to know,†he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark." --
Erin Morgenstern
#Dark Quotes
#Wish Quotes
#Matter Quotes
“By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.”
“We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.”
“Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.”
“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”
“The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.”
“Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.”
Source : Twitter post from Oct 28, 2013
“Rose:i love you Doctor:Quite right, and i guess if it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler... (the doctor fades, him in his TARDIS, with tear tracks and a tear running down his cheek)”
“Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.”