Parchment Of Leaves Quotes

#1. Maybe all the trees were God.
A Parchment of Leaves

Silas House

#2. To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Charles Dudley Warner

#3. When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

Ted Cruz

#4. I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.

Silas House

#5. The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

Emile M. Cioran

#6. Aiyaaaa," Zheng said softly.
And if that meant "holy shit," I agreed.

Karen Chance

#7. Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

Deepak Chopra

#8. I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

Captain Beefheart

#9. Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon