Dimalanta Island Quotes

#1. We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.

John Lancaster Spalding

#2. I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose;
it gives you more to go by; the conventions of poetry have been getting
far off from normal life, so that to have a prose bridge makes
reading poetry seem more natural.

William Empson

#3. The worst thing about the slivers of light is that you get to catch people's expressions for only a split second; then they disappear again, and in between you are forced to think about what it is that could make a person look so devastated.

Melina Marchetta

#4. Absence of understanding does not warrant absence of existence

Avicenna

#5. Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Gaston Leroux

#6. But something is always impelling one to hum vibrating, like the hawk moth, at the mouth of the cavern of mystery.

Virginia Woolf

#7. When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

Cate Marvin