Quotes of: Placing Keyword

The power to do was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong?

MapHead: No.2

Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.

The Message in the Hollow Oak

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Meditations on First Philosophy

Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.

Mink River

Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.

The Madness Season

But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.

In the Miso Soup

By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.

Master of Stupidity

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

Non Friction

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

A Northern Light

Death wasn't a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place.

Nadia's Song

...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Netherland

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.

Night Vision

I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.

Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World

Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.

The Last Bride in Ballymuir

The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.

Lullabies for Little Criminals

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

The Last Continent

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Love Letters to the Dead

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

Life: An Exploded Diagram

Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.

The Lost Hero