Coming Through Slaughter Quotes

#1. Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.

Sarah Hall

#2. My eyes always keep searching,
for something inexpressible,
above the far away sky.

I long to get lost,
inside the evening-twilight.

Silence always tickles me -
in a strange way;

I meet "me"
in the time between
sunset and darkness.

Khadija Rupa

#3. I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#4. What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?

Jonathan Edwards

#5. You want to hit the gym with me?"
Ellie wrinkled her button nose. "Gym? Me?"
I eyed her skinny self. "You mean you're naturally that gorgeous?"
She laughed, flushing a little. "I have good genes."
"Yeah, well I have to work-out to fit into mine.

Samantha Young

#6. Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

Paul Cezanne

#7. International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.

Samora Machel

#8. There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

E.H. Gombrich

#9. I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Boris Pasternak

#10. If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil.

Alain Ducasse

#11. I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

Lev Grossman

#12. Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

Sharon Salzberg

#13. Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

Stephen King