Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

He knew me. He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me.

A.D. 30

This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.

The Atonement Child

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

About David

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.

Admission

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

All Those Vanished Engines

She ran, and leaned to the wall, until her face was close to mine and her breath came on me.

Affinity

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Atlas of the Human Heart

I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

Acacia: The War with the Mein

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

Among Others

She wanted to be the rain, to cover him with moisture, to bring life to his seed.

Ascension

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Vladimir Kramnik

Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

Will Shetterly

You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

The House of Paper

Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

Horde

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

The Historian

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

The Historian

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

How Green Was My Valley

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

How to Be a Woman

I sighed. 'Ah spite, the stuff of fairy tales.

How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf