Glauber Ribeiro > Glauber's Quotes

“That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?”
― Frederick Buechner, Godric

“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secreat understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Thousands of them perish in obscurity, a few are great names. They are sensitive for others as well as themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but power to endure, and they can take a joke.”
― E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. ”
― A.W. Streane

“Stop shining your lantern in my face."
"It's such a lovely face.”
― Y.S. Lee, The Traitor in the Tunnel

“It's terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.”
― Y.S. Lee, A Spy in the House

“Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, had a lamp shade on her head. Again.”
― Y.S. Lee, The Traitor in the Tunnel

“He looked at her for a moment, amazed. "How did you know that? How can a servant girl like you understand so much?"

Because self-absorbed man-children are common as weeds, thought Mary. But she said, "I don't know, sir. I only guessed.”
― Y.S. Lee, The Traitor in the Tunnel

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, "Politics, from the Latin. Poly, meaning 'many.' Ticks meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Epitaph

“IF YOU WANT A STORYBOOK ENDING, stop—now—and remember them in that tender moment. Be content to know that they embarked on a series of adventures throughout the West and that they stayed together through thick and thin for forty-five years.

But know this as well: If their story ended here, no one would remember them at all.

Where a tale begins and where it ends matters. Who tells the story, and why . . . That makes all the difference.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Epitaph

“No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Epitaph

“Wyatt Earp had been born, and born again, and now there would be a third life, for the iron fist that had seized his soul in childhood had lost its grip at last. The long struggle for control was over, and in its place, he found a wordless acceptance of a truth he'd always known. He was bred to this anger. It had been in him since the cradle. He'd never bullied neighbors or beaten a horse. He'd never punched the front teeth out of a six-year-old's mouth or hit a woman until she begged. But he was no better than his father, and never had been. He was far, far worse.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Epitaph

“Only the greedy and stupid attempt the White Pass. They try by the hundreds each week.”
― Y.S. Lee, A Tyranny of Petticoats

“Are you quite certain you don't want to come up to my flat for tea and toast and scandal?”
― Y.S. Lee, Rivals in the City

“They plodded on, contemplating the faithlessness of modern love and marriage.”
― Y.S. Lee, Rivals in the City

“Mr. Ching claims the superiority of Chinese hand-and-foot fighting, and promises ocular proof of such.”
― Y.S. Lee, Rivals in the City

“According to the historian William H. McNeil, European churches did not have pews until sometime in the eighteenth century. People stood or milled around, creating a very different dynamic than we find in today's churches, where people are expected to spend most of their time sitting.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich

“In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

“The early Christian patriarchs may not have realized that, in attempting to suppress ecstatic practices, they were throwing out much of Jesus too.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

“With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

“What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“She read it over one last time, not really satisfied, but it was the truth. Even if it still had some scratch-outs.”
― Sharon M. Draper, Stella by Starlight

“When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to them as we can. If we really did attempt to return to them, we would find Moses as well as Christ, Calvin, and his legions of intellectual heirs. And we would find a recurrent, passionate, insistence on bounty or liberality, mercy and liberality, on being kind and liberal, liberal and bountiful, and enjoying the great blessings God has promised to liberality to the poor.”
― Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books

“I know I'm supposed to be a good girl. I know I'm supposed to be happy doing needlework samplers and baking potatoes in coal and whatnot.
But Lord, I love running from the law.”
― Saundra Mitchell, A Tyranny of Petticoats

“Dinner was fried chicken, collard greens, and silence.”
― Saundra Mitchell, A Tyranny of Petticoats

“There is an unseen river of communication that forever flows -- dark and powerful.”
― Sharon M. Draper, Stella by Starlight