A Single Shard Quotes

#1. God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

Linda Sue Park

#2. Io, Europa, Ganimedes puer, atque Calisto
lascivo nimium perplacuere Iovi.
(Io, Europa, the boy Ganymede, and Callisto greatly pleased lustful Jupiter.)
[Marius naming Jupiter's moons]

Simon Marius

#3. The cemetery is full of people who thought they could change themselves tomorrow.

Boonaa Mohammed

#4. I've never really been too scared to do anything ...

Ryan Follese

#5. Some say death is a doorway,
belief the key. Others claim you only
have to stumble across the threshold
to glimpse a hundred billion universes
in the blink of single silver shard.

Ellen Hopkins

#6. It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

Jakob Dylan

#7. A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Simon Sinek

#8. People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

Jonathan Haidt

#9. I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

Rex Harrison

#10. Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

#12. Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough