Ondine's Quotes

#1. There's great stuff in there. There's a disease called Ondine's Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You have to think "breathe, breathe" all the time, or you stop breathing. Most people who get it die.

Ned Vizzini

#2. You're just as dead if you fall from forty feet as you are from four thousand fathoms, that's what I say.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Sometimes we think we're losing something when we're really finding something else.

Emma Raveling

#4. Our dreams are fluid, just as we are. They change as we change.

Emma Raveling

#5. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

Mal Peet

#6. You want to know about a good man? Man is the one who can carry the home and the family and have the strength to keep that weight going; woman is that which can nurture and nurse and be herself and can keep her radiance and have the strength of that.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#7. I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

David Macaulay

#8. I walked forward simply because there was no going back.

Emma Raveling

#9. I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.

Curt Schilling

#10. It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American.

Maureen Johnson

#11. Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

Robert Burton

#12. Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

Kobayashi Issa

#13. I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?

Selma Blair

#14. What did he do to you?" Kyrie asks. "Flirt with another girl?" "Call you fat?" Marina suggests. "Talk about his ex?" Ondine says, and the others groan. "We've been there, sister," Marina says.

Jodi Picoult

#15. I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Billy Graham

#16. And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

Rosamund Pike

#17. Endings do not exist. There are only choices leading to other paths.

Emma Raveling

#18. Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

Terence McKenna

#19. I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.

Colin Firth

#20. She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she had never really worn it at all.

Johanna Lindsey