Quotes of: Degenerate Keyword

Just because we're friends, doesn't mean I shouldn't have to say sorry. You deserve that respect.

Marshmallows for Breakfast

Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

Miss Webster and Chérif

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

Splendid

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Son of the Shadows

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

Something Coming Through

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

The Theory of Clouds

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

Twice as Hot

Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife

Terra Incognita

If you’d rather not go with me, I will completely understand and won’t hate you for more than a day. Maybe two.

The One You Want

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

The Prize

My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.

Prodigy

The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.

Prodigy

Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.

Prodigy

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon

The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

Rediscover Catholicism

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

The Reconstructionist