Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith,...

Swann's Way

No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Por menos valor que tenha a vida quando é desperdiçada, vale, contudo, a pena defendê-la. Se assim não fosse, não custaria abandoná-la.

A Tale of Two Cities

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Dio promette la vita eterna” disse Eldritch. “Io posso fare di meglio; posso metterla in commercio.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.

Thirst

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

The Poisonwood Bible

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

The Poisonwood Bible

Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

The Poisonwood Bible

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

The Poisonwood Bible

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

The Poisonwood Bible

To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

The Poisonwood Bible

...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...

The Poisonwood Bible

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

The Poisonwood Bible

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

The Poisonwood Bible

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

The Poisonwood Bible

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Père Goriot

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Père Goriot

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Père Goriot