Gene Brewer Quotes

#1. We're going to Connecticut.' A deep inhale. 'Via a pond dome.' I blinked bit by bit. 'Through the Sound.' I rolled my shoulders. 'I think I should have paid better attention when Mom took me to Sunday school classes.

Scarlett Dawn

#2. A false hope gives only false comfort.

Gene Brewer

#3. Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one's self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)

Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

#4. Mental illness is often in the eye of the beholder. Too often on this PLANET it refers to those who think and act differently from the majority.

Gene Brewer

#5. Why do human beings have the peculiar impression that belief is the same as truth?"
"Because sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes we need to believe in a better truth."
"What better truth can there be than truth?

Gene Brewer

#6. One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

Gautama Buddha

#7. I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.

Tamsin Greig

#8. To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

Robert Bly

#9. Let me love you, he said
I want to mould that broken heart,
To feel the pain the others before I have caused,
Walk down the darkness that you walked through,
Understand how something so broken can be so beautiful,
I need to understand how you manifested.

Tanzy Sayadi

#10. We both knew it couldn't last, Catherine. From the beginning I warned you, April just can't marry with September.

V.C. Andrews

#11. Education stems from the desire to learn. With that, you don't need schools. Without it, all the schools in the UNIVERSE are useless.

Gene Brewer

#12. They are but children.

Gene Brewer

#13. Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What's the point?

Jodi Picoult

#14. I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.

T.C. Boyle

#15. Prot: I'm not tired.
Brewer: I am.
Prot: Perhaps you're getting too much sleep. All your beings seem to sleep a lot. Is that because it's so awful to be awake?

Gene Brewer

#16. It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

David Levithan