Brautigan Library Quotes

#1. I do not believe that the Duke will find those terms acceptable. Might I convince you to reconsider - "
"Dear God, go faul yourself, you self-important gecko!

S.G. Night

#2. Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

Richard Dawkins

#3. Lake of the Woods is asleep for the winter, but it is dreaming. Marie feels that she can hear the dreams of the lake running through the ice, like thoughts in a language we don't know.

Richard Preston

#4. Our
world in that living room with its window framing my beloved Elburz Mountains became our
sanctuary, our self-contained universe, mocking the reality of black-scarved, timid faces in the city
that sprawled below.

Azar Nafisi

#5. There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. How was I supposed to tell him how he affected me and how that any other time before this moment meant absolutely nothing, because none of those moments were with him?

Peggy Martinez

#8. That's the thing about the places we come from - they probably say the least about who we really are than anything.

Rebecca Serle