Cruso Quotes

#1. I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. You will believe me when I say the life we lead grows less and less distinct from the life we led of Cruso's island. Sometimes I wake up not knowing where I am. The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day.

J.M. Coetzee

#3. When I reflect on my story I seem to exist only as the one who came, the one who witnessed, the one who longed to be gone: a being without substance, a ghost beside the true body of Cruso. Is that the fate of all storytellers?

J.M. Coetzee

#4. So I was officially sixteen. For my present, I got cornered by Uncle Freaky, who announced that I was marked for assassination.

Rick Riordan

#5. For when people leave our company in our time we are never certain of seeing them again, or seeing them unaltered.

Michael Ondaatje

#6. The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

Thalassa Cruso

#7. March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.

Thalassa Cruso

#8. Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent.

Doris Lessing

#9. I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.

Sam Neill

#10. They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them.

Christina Engela

#11. The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

Jack Kerouac

#12. One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

Thalassa Cruso

#13. Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.

Thalassa Cruso

#14. I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

Thalassa Cruso

#15. Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.

Thalassa Cruso

#16. Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

Thalassa Cruso

#17. Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making

Jack Dangermond

#18. Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

Thalassa Cruso

#19. The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits.

Yukito Kishiro

#20. I do acting for the awards ... and cash money.

Rebel Wilson

#21. If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
road construction, you may live in Canada

Jeff Foxworthy

#22. To suddenly be so hurt in so many different places at once left her dazed and with a sort of directionless anger. It wasn't fair that a person could be hurt so much.

James S.A. Corey