Illusions Perdues Quotes

#1. If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.

John Owen

#2. It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable - like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

Jane Hamilton

#3. In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Daniel Boone

#4. It's a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief.

Mitch Michaelson

#5. I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer would have to be Shakespeare - I love the emotion and human truths he touches on so beautifully.

MC Lars

#6. Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

Bret Easton Ellis

#7. Though my love for you is infinitesimal, your eyes are as dewey as any old decimal.

Elizabeth McCracken