Cranes Hwang Sunwon Quotes

#1. I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

Taslima Nasrin

#2. With the help of the janitor he screwed on to the side of the desk a pencil sharpener - that highly satisfying, highly philosophical implement that goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. Anna took her solace where she always did. The smell of the earth, the touch of the sky held for her a special alchemy, able to turn loneliness into aloneness, and so make it, if not sacred, at least bearable.

Nevada Barr

#4. One of the greatest joys of not judging others is becoming capable of discerning God's will in a difficult situation. Pg 152

John Kuypers

#5. A journey to try is not worthy to start, better to love none than starting over in relationships and getting dropped like a coin that won't get tossed.

Auliq Ice

#6. I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Lord Byron

#7. Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

Wendell Berry

#8. ...that the basic transaction of life itself was a sad, endless amalgam of public endurance and private indulgence.

Stefan Merrill Block