Nightjar Quotes

#1. I didn't throw the paper away.
Maybe I should have.
Oh, the things you know in retrospect.

Ilsa J. Bick

#2. Always look ahead,
there are no regrets in that direction.

Sydney Hauser

#3. Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. A lifetime of planning can accomplish nothing. Ten seconds of bravery can conquer a lifetime.
-Racquel

Brandy Nacole

#5. ***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

Immanuel Kant

#6. Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza."
"Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.

Mary E. Pearson

#7. Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic?

Carol Plum-Ucci

#8. I remembered his older brother, who had died in Sicily, in battle for the free world- he had barely had time to see Sicily before he died and had assuredly never seen the free world.

James Baldwin

#9. I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

Imre Kertesz

#10. Complaining about the universe's unfairness is never part of a successful strategy.

Cory Doctorow

#11. Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.

Mark Twain

#12. The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

Conrad Aiken

#13. Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Let me see: There's Miss Garnnett in Ireland, in June of 1770; Miss Nightjar in Swansea on April 3, 1901; Miss Avocet and Miss Bunting together in Derbyshire on Saint Swithin's Day of 1867; Miss Treecreeper I don't remmeber where exactly
oh, and dear Miss Finch.

Ransom Riggs