Effluvial Quotes

#1. The place was stifling. Suddenly it occurred to her that a trace of him still lurked in her, minute and spectral, that effluvial stain that would be her stigmata forever. It was then that she resolved to ask for an appointment to see him, as things had to be settled between them.

Edna O'Brien

#2. Past experiences are effluvial.
Burn them.
The now is important.

Sandra Harner

#3. I'm interested in clothes in the way that other people are interested in cars.

Catherine Martin

#4. It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

Lauren DeStefano

#5. My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

Deborah Kara Unger

#6. She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

Graham Greene

#7. I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

#8. Best thunderclap came from Spengler, to the effect that science is either true or false, art is either shallow or deep. Second best came from some Supreme Court Justice, Jackson, I think, to the effect that one man's right to swing his fists stops where another man's nose begins.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. His name was Mr. Quan and he was the concierge, which explained the black suit and the lavender shirt but not the oversized bow tie in chrome-yellow silk. Perhaps nothing could.

Carsten Stroud

#10. This lofty thought proves I dreamt it!

Arthur Rimbaud

#11. A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Vengeance is a sword pointed inward.

Molly Greene

#13. It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.

Jeanne DuPrau