Quotes of: Placing Keyword

...there was something in the texture of the weave that felt happy: the echo of a memory so far down in his soul it was all emotion, a burst of colour and warmth, adrift from time and place.

House of Windows

This was never about the money... Don't you understand? A world without good art is a far more dangerous place than one you don't get paid for making it in.

Ink Bleeder

It's this place. Whatever darkness came to the island, it's here to stay. Stick around long enough and it gets inside your skin, into your cells, like an infection.

Island of the Forbidden

I took a step back, shaking my head, wishing I could place a gnarly black hex on him. My daddy taught me better than that.

Invisible Magic

Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere.

The Impossible Knife of Memory

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.

Innocent

Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.” Thorkild aka ‘Borge’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup

The Informer

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

You cannot trust yourself,’ she agreed, bed-rock calm. ‘Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.

Initiate's Trial

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

If You Liked School, You'll Love Work

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

Janet Frame: An Autobiography

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

Journey Around My Room

Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

People and things would continue to exist in a world where I did not, and no one would ever think of me. And, if that was the case, then what was the point of existing in the first place?

Kiss Me First

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Killosophy

If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen

Release The Ink

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

It is important to be considerate of the future, but when we invest all of our present in our future hopes, we are placing a lot of value on what is inevitably in doubt.

The Restful Mind

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Rights of Man