Peter Faber Quotes

#1. Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity ... After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

Adolf Hitler

#2. Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.

Michel Faber

#3. Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.

Michel Faber

#4. A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.

Scott Raab

#5. My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. Chastity is curable, if detected early.

Woody Allen

#7. Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

Ice Cube

#8. A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves.

Patricia Hagan

#9. The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is.

Jane Caputi

#10. We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.

Marlon Brando

#11. When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

Antonio Tabucchi

#12. Anyway," Peter continued. "I got the most amazing welcome. These people are desperate to learn about God!"
"Well, ain't that a lick on the dick," said BG.

Michel Faber

#13. Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

William Shakespeare

#14. Peter ... " She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. "Let's not go there."
"That's what people always say about places where they already are.

Michel Faber

#15. In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. You don't need the help of politicians to be a good teacher, Peter.

Audrey Magee