Emilia Leblanc Quotes

#1. For a fraction of a second, we were together, and it had felt divine. Not nice. Not safe. Not taken for granted. It was short and beautiful and painfully memorable. Like the tree I was obsessed with.

L.J. Shen

#2. What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Walter Pater

#3. The thunder tiger looked at her like an avalanche looks at a butterfly.

Jay Kristoff

#4. Miss Tox made no verbal answer, but took up the little wateringpot with a trembling hand, and looked vacantly round as if considering what article of furniture would be improved by the contents. The

Charles Dickens

#5. Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

Gordon Lightfoot

#6. This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

Jane Rule

#7. You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

Alasdair Gray

#8. The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

Richard M. Nixon