Eva Seyler > Eva's Quotes

“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. ”
― Robert Benchley

“She had met the man who was now her husband. He was seven foot three, and she was six foot two and a quarter. It was a match made perhaps not in heaven but certainly nearer the ceiling.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

“And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb - alive, alive, ALIVE.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“Mr Cripp's last words were 'Good heavens! It's full of holes!' said Mary. 'Do you have any idea to what he was referring?'
'Most puzzling,' confessed the Vicar. 'He might have been referring to anything - the greenhouse, his cucumber, the plot - anything.'
'The plot?' echoed Mary.
'I mean the vegetable plot,' he said hurriedly.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

“Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton--go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday--I don't know why--and my father had no name at all--his identity and existence had been scrubbed by the ChronoGuard after he went rogue. To all intents and purposes he didn't exist at all. It didn't matter. He was always Dad to me...”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“The other three orderlies who accompanied him are critical in the hospital.'
'Critical?'
'Yes. Don't like the food, beds uncomfortable, waiting lists too long - usual crap. Other than that they're fine.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

“Jack said nothing. It was time to start putting his plan into action. Then he remembered: He didn't have one.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear

“Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

“To me, grass is simply a transitional phase for turning sunlight into milk.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

“Avie, you canna buy or bargain for anyone’s love. Love is a gift, and if you have to give something to someone to get it, it’s no love anymore.”
― Eva Seyler, The War in Our Hearts

“Fiver hung onto my arm as if I was the last boat on the Lusitania.”
― David Fiddimore, Tuesday's War

“I close my eyes and pray
that the world will
somehow change.

But I know it isn't
going to change
on its own, so I know
I must pray
for the courage to
bring it about.”
― Kip Wilson, White Rose

“I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“They will see the whore, the madwoman, the murderess, the female dripping blood into the grass and laughing with her mouth choked with dirt. They will say “Agnes” and see the spider, the witch caught in the webbing of her own fateful weaving. They might see the lamb circled by ravens, bleating for a lost mother. But they will not see me. I will not be there.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“She is not like me. She knows only the tree of life. She has not seen its twisted roots pawing stones and coffins.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“People are afraid of the darkness in their own souls, and instead of working to get it out of themselves, they demonize someone else instead. Easier.”
― Eva Seyler, The War in Our Hearts

“The alligator was very dead and had been that way a long time and was dried up and cracked and coming apart at the seams. Nobody wanted to take pictures of the dead alligator since it already had enough problems.”
― Patrick F. McManus, The Grasshopper Trap

“He is such a stick in the mud whenever I try to find myself a new mother. He’ll tell me again about how swans mate for life, and his mate is dead, and he will mourn her FOREVER. I looked it up once and showed him from one of his own books that swans will, in fact, find new mates if their first one dies, but he insisted he’s not That Type of Swan.”
― Eva Seyler, This Great Wilderness

“Grief shouldn’t be measured in comparison with someone else’s troubles,” she said. “Only in proportion with your own experience.”
― Eva Seyler, This Great Wilderness

“He always felt lost if he had to make conversation, especially with children, and the only way he knew to put people at ease was if he was drilling them. It was not exactly the same thing.”
― Eva Seyler, The War in Our Hearts

“Furthermore, unlike many other great predators of history, from Genghis Khan to the Spanish conquistadors, King Leopold II never saw a drop of blood spilled in anger. He never set foot in the Congo. There is something very modern about that, too, as there is about the bomber pilot in the stratosphere, above the clouds, who never hears screams or sees shattered homes or torn flesh.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland