Arnan > Arnan's Quotes

“Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.”
― Robin Hobb, Shaman's Crossing

“Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the Holiday Season, happy families can abruptly become unhappy and unhappy families can, to their great alarm, be happy”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.”
― Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.”
― Alan Garner, The Voice That Thunders

“Forge your vision in cold weather, hide within your work until it is spring.”
― Er Tai Gao, IN SEARCH MY HOMELAND

“The sea accepts a hundred rivers, grows big by accepting
The cliff stands a thousand feet, is strong by not desiring.”
― Er Tai Gao, IN SEARCH MY HOMELAND

“Beauty that isn't felt isn't beauty”
― Er Tai Gao, IN SEARCH MY HOMELAND

“You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn
streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“... Chinese consider eating food to be one of the rare joys of living...”
― Frederick J. Simoons, Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry

“... in traditional China the frequency of eating out was a fairly good indication of a person's rank in society.”
― Frederick J. Simoons, Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry

“She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.”
― Lisa See, Dragon Bones

“My county? Another concept to which you attach from a distance a rather vague ideal. You want to know what "my country" really is? Nothing more or less than a gathering of shareholders, a form of property, bourgeois mentality, and vanity. Think about all the people in your country whom you wouldn't go near, and you'll see that the ties that are supposed to bind us together don't go very deep....”
― Gabriel Chevallier

“We must, we must, we must increase our bust.”
― Judy Blume, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret