Catalina Z > Catalina's Quotes

“In the big, crowded, noisy room where golden suns swam on the walls and the years and Years were told on golden dials, he searched for the alien, the stranger, his wife.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“His mind was full of cupboards, cluttered with secret pleasures.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“It had been quiet in Estha's head until Rahel came. But with her she had brought the sound of passing trains, and the light and shade that falls on you if you have a window seat.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“I am, as you know, a fan of nature, said Reginald. And yet, nature doesn't find ways to do anything. Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“I sit there, aimlessly, God's aim is aimlessness. But to keep this awareness is granted to no man.”
― Nescio, Amsterdam Stories

“My studio looked at me like it didn't know me anymore.”
― Nescio, Amsterdam Stories

“But nothing ever came of that, because if you are a little poet the prettiest girls are always walking on the other side of the canal.”
― Nescio, Amsterdam Stories

“Could you catch the light and hug it tight and take it inside you?”
― Nescio, Amsterdam Stories

“There were things Thor did when something went wrong. The first thing he did was ask himself if what had happened was Loki’s fault. Thor pondered. He did not believe that even Loki would have dared to steal his hammer. So he did the next thing he did when something went wrong, and he went to ask Loki for advice.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“But Thor said nothing. He was thinking about the night before, and wrestling old age, of drinking the sea. He was thinking about the Midgard serpent.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“Seymour once said to me — in a crosstown bus, of all places — that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and stones, day and night, heat and cold.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey