Akhmed's Quotes

#1. Akhmed's eight-day-old eyes had held the reflection of ten thousand possible lives. Khassan wasn't an emotive or superstitious man, and nothing like it had ever happened again, but he had found, layered in the infant's half-lidded eyes, innumerable, wanting faces, none of which he had recognized.

Anthony Marra

#2. I've always though Marx's view on religion was the one thing he got right. Faith is a crutch.'
'If you step on a land mine,' Akhmed said, the crutch becomes the leg.

Anthony Marra

#3. Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. Kate Daniels, deadly swordswoman and rescuer of hungry orphans. Come in. Wash your hands.

Ilona Andrews

#5. I make decisions to do movies based on the cast. I'd just been working with Zach [Galifianakis] on The Hangover, and I was thinking, I've got to find something to do with this guy immediately.

Todd Phillips

#6. You can take the man out of the woods, but you can't take the woods out of the man.

Gary Paulsen

#7. He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#8. A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it.

Holly LeCraw

#9. If he had the cleft tongue of a devil, or the snake hair of a Medusa, or the matted hair of a wolf-monster, Akhmed might understand. But Ramazan had two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, pairs of arms and legs and ears, hair greasy, but not slimy and certainly not slithering, and Akhmed did not understand.

Anthony Marra