John Meade Falkner Quotes

#1. He'd woken up to the absence of Mathilde in the bed, grief in the coolness where her heat should have been.

Lauren Groff

#2. Westray remembered the organist's manner in the church, and began to suspect that his mind was turned. The other read his thoughts, and said rather reproachfully:

"Oh no, I am not mad - only weak and foolish and very cowardly.

John Meade Falkner

#3. Lindbergh knew perfectly well what modern bombs could do to cities but, seeing Nazi Germany for the first time, the idea of a new and very dangerous war became real to him.

Winston Groom

#4. You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.

Stephen Colbert

#5. I will always be within reach if you need me, little one ...

A.R. Von

#6. He was in that broken mood for which the Middle Ages offered the cloister as a remedy; he felt the urgent need of sacrifice and abnegation to purge him.

John Meade Falkner

#7. ...Will you not join me in a cup of cocoa? The kettle boils."

Mr Sharnall's face fell.

"You ought to have been an old woman," he said; "only old women drink cocoa. Well, I don't mind if I do; any port in a storm.

John Meade Falkner

#8. Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. Poverty's a chilly theme," he said; "let's take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.

John Meade Falkner

#10. Is there any depression so deep as this? is there any night so dark as this first eclipse of the soul, this first conscious stilling of the instinct for right?

John Meade Falkner

#11. Johnny 'Fairplay' Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of 'Survivor' ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.

Jenna Morasca

#12. We thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today And to be a boy eternal.

John Meade Falkner

#13. It's just that I'm happy now, and I guess that's how we judge a place, isn't it? Not for what it is, but for what we are when we live there.

Janice Graham

#14. Hi, God, it's me, Harry. Please don't turn me into a pillar of salt.

Jim Butcher

#15. I want a good love story and a happy ending. Period. I don't want to deal with real life shit in a book. I'm reading to escape.

R.L. Griffin

#16. Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.

John Meade Falkner

#17. I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard ... and achieving as much as I could.

Elena Kagan

#18. You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.

Shannon L. Alder