Quotes of: Hunters Keyword

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.

Commencement

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

In the Country of Men

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

The Curse of the Mistwraith

Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

Contact

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

Carnival: A Novel

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

Capital

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Cosmos

You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Cosmos

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

Cosmos

Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.

Don't Turn Around

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

A Different Blue

tetapi berbahagialah orang yang kuat menderita segala kesengsaraan untuk keperluan nusa dan bangsa

Di Tepi Kali Bekasi

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Darconville’s Cat

Witty people came out in autumn; beauties in July.

Dancer from the Dance

Homosexuality is like a boarding school in which there are no vacations.

Dancer from the Dance

Why does it not surprise me that you talk during sex?

Do or Die

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.

Defenders

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Drowning Instinct

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

Defending Jacob