World Quotes - Page 14

• ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.

  Haruki Murakami

  Past, Ice, Essence

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• She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

  Katherine Paterson

  Home, Moon, Self

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Mean, May, Strange

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• I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?

  Richard Russo

  Regret, Way, Understood

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• Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Player, Games

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.

  Frank Abagnale

  Beach, Europe, Sensual

  "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 2000.

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• The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

  Simone Weil

  Doors, Way, Barriers

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.200, U of Nebraska Press

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• Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?

  Mitch Albom

  Quiet Moments, Healthy, Mind

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• Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

  Graham Swift

  Children, People, Curiosity

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• Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Track, Historical, Vampire

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• The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.

  Jewell Parker Rhodes

  Life, Strong, Children

  Jewell Parker Rhodes (2010). “Ninth Ward”, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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• It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.

  John Knowles

  Morning, Hate, Joy

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• The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, People

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• If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Different, Done, Silent

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

  Darren Shan

  Blessed, Appreciate, Magic

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• we're watchers of this world aren't we? not players

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Player, This World, Watchers

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.104, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB CHERUB agents are aged between 10 and 17. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.

  Robert Muchamore

  Running, Children, Real

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• I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you

  Diana Palmer

  Empty, Without You, Colorless

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• In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.

  Melina Marchetta

  Life, Mean, Flirting

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• However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Voice, Judging

  "The Will to Power".

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• The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sorry, Hot, Lizards

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• One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.

  Sarah Dessen

  Two, Chloe, Serious

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Headings, My Past

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.343, Penguin

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• To call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie, you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good, you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.

  Arundhati Roy

  Hate, Evil, Imagination

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.50, South End Press

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• When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Light, Yesterday, Remember

  Stanley Kunitz (1974). “The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970”, Harvill Secker

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