Ayemenem House Quotes

#1. It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

Arundhati Roy

#2. We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Patrick O'Brian

#3. The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Demosthenes

#4. All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.

Czeslaw Milosz

#5. Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

#6. He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful.

Charlaine Harris

#7. Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

Zelda Fitzgerald