Osbornes Stationers Quotes

#1. Everything becomes ... too late, finally. You know it's going on ... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel ... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield ... finally ... there's nothing there ... save rust; bones; and the wind.

Edward Albee

#2. For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#3. The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

Steven Wright

#4. She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

John Cheever

#5. Discovery was no longer a happy ship.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.

Tamora Pierce

#7. As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

Fausto Cercignani

#8. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious way
to feel alive.

V.C. Andrews