Life will forever be open to us. We will never know that it cannot be expressed more beautifully. The beauty in the world is growing.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
The gold bangle on the bony wrist was like a padlock on a canvas door which a fist could break.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
A tent, above all for a solitary traveler, is troublesome to pitch; and even on the march it forms a conspicuous feature in your baggage.
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Knowledge is not what costs. Wisdom does.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
Making things look easy is hard. Clarity requires depth.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
Home: it was a phrase one used to mean four walls behind which one slept. There had never been a home.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
…his heart moved painfully, as when a man in love hears a stranger name a flower which is also the name of his woman.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
But the people of the inn, in nine cases out of ten, show themselves friendly and considerate. As soon as you cross the doors you cease to be a stranger; and although these peasantries are rude and forbidding on the highway, they show a tincture of kind breeding when you share their hearth.
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
My master taught me that the shortest path to ruins was underestimating one’s opponent.
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies