Maphead Quotes

#1. Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.

Lesley Howarth

#2. Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then rushed around looking grim. It would be a simple matter to fix it, MapHead thought. No reason not to be happy.

Lesley Howarth

#3. Nothing ever really goes away.

Lesley Howarth

#4. I sort of felt -- frightened, you know?
Frightened of what?
Being alone.
Alone is scary. I know what you mean.
Plus, I'm scared of myself.

Lesley Howarth

#5. His knowingness made him cold.

Lesley Howarth

#6. It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?

Lesley Howarth

#7. Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

Jim Lovell

#8. Everything would go on, whether he did or not. That was its beauty and its strength. His life, his hope, his dreams. Nothing cared, so he'd better.

Lesley Howarth

#9. If you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't then you are wasting your time on earth

Roberto Clemente Cancel

#10. Invisibility was a tricky thing to get right. It had to do with blocking the way people saw you -- with absorbing light instead of reflecting it.

Lesley Howarth

#11. quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#12. He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen

Lesley Howarth

#13. The power to do anything was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong?

Lesley Howarth

#14. You're special, not strange. You should be glad.

Lesley Howarth

#15. But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them.

Lesley Howarth

#16. Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.

Ben Schott

#17. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.

Glenn Close

#18. Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it on me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do?

Lesley Howarth