Accidental Harmony Quotes

#1. Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek.

Tana French

#2. At fourteen my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.

Alice Sebold

#3. I want something from her, but I don't know what it is. I guess that means sex.

Joey Comeau

#4. Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

James Avery

#5. Harmony doesn't happen by accident, accidents happen by accident.

Nityananda Das

#6. I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

Earl Felton

#7. I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.

Joseph Mawle

#8. The show doesn't go on because it's ready; it goes on because it's 11:30.

Lorne Michaels

#9. When they said he didn't exist, he couldn't die of grief, so he had to be born. He's already out there living somewhere; he blinks his little eyes and grows.

Wislawa Szymborska

#10. Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

Paul Lockhart

#11. He would not become soft. It was exhaustion he wanted - it helped him write. He needed each of his words to appreciate the weight they bore. He felt like he was lifting them and then letting them drop to the end of his finge

Colum McCann