You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be...
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way...
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities,...
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and...
before speaking, notice what motivates your words.
As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.
The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like {Chris Kimsington}.
Ana thought eyebrow rings were stupid. She liked earrings, and she could understand nose rings, belly-button rings and even pierced tongues, but metal sticking out of random facial places like...
...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.
We were in the gondolas at The Venetian. You said you couldn't swim, that I'd have to save you if we capsized.His Adam's apple jumped. Yeah.I was terrified for you.I know. You hung onto me so tight I...
The more we die, the stronger we will become
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So...
One of his closest friends, Owen Barfield, once said of Lewis that "what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything."12
Withdrawal to our dreams may be dangerous
I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.
No doubt chivalry is a failure, but it is not such a failure as pacifism. Wars {even just wars} inevitably involve evil, but not so much evil as is involved in passively allowing aggressors to have...
You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
Adam, she panted. I thought you wanted to see the lights. Yeah, they're real nice. Wonder if I could make you come just by playing with your nipples? What do you think, princess?
She resented the fact that her veil, which to her was a symbol of scared relationship to god, had now become an instrument of power, turning the women who wore them into political signs and symbols.
those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.
It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.
I eat my heart out alone.
I'm a perfectly equipped failure.
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates...
…people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most rational argument.
They encourage us to show the feelings of our love for the Imam in the utmost exaggeration forms, while they are forbidden to show any public expression of our personal feelings, and I mean love in...
We in ancient countries have our past-we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own...
Empathy lies at the heart of , like so many other great novels--the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability-true stability-is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth.
However politically desirable a republic might be, it remains unable to compete imaginatively with monarchy because monarchy in principle more completely mirrors the nature of divine authority. One of...
enjoyed both places. But it's nice
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
