Samuel > Samuel's Quotes

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Trees are normally very general and all-inclusive with their wisdom pearls. When a tree decides to talk to you, it's a very, very big deal, as if the world stops, as if you are scooped up and held in a snow globe, weightless and womb-like. I felt their vibrations in my feathers, in the flutter of my little black heart.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“Other kids—blind date with someone’s brother. Me? A blind date with a wrench.”
― Una McCormack, The Way to the Stars

“The Yoruba say “o d’oju ala” when someone dies. I will see you in dreams.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater

“Humanity was no longer the only child of an indifferent chaos goddess, but one of many siblings”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater

“I hear music. Is that asshole piping music through the killer robot? I can see the marketing campaign: one hundred tunes to die to.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater

“This is what we are: a collection stories that we share, in common. This is what we are to each other.”
― Graham Joyce, The Silent Land

“What harsh sour souls they must have had, these frightening and frightened folk, creating for themselves in the lush fertile plains of India such a Supreme Soviet of a city!”
― Robert Silverberg, Sailing to Byzantium

“Wat dood is is dood, maar wat vermoord is leeft voort, leeft voortaan minder gestoord dan wat onbestorven leeft. Martinus Nijhoff uit: Het uur U”
― Jan Geurtz, Verslaafd aan liefde: de weg naar zelfacceptatie en geluk in relaties

“For a year and a half, he was an aristocratic supertramp,”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading

“Leave thy home, O youth, and seek out alien shores … Yield not to misfortune: the far-off Danube shall know thee, the cold North-wind and the untroubled kingdom of Canopus and the men who gaze on the new birth of Phoebus or upon his setting”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading