Pg 258 Quotes

#1. Right. Vampires. But how do they get inside?"
"They fly" ...
"We dont fly," Clary felt impelled to point out.
"No," Jace agreed. "We dont fly. We break and enter." ...
"Flying sounds like more fun."
-Clary & Jace, pg.258-

Cassandra Clare

#2. The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable ... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)

Wendell Berry

#3. I have read a lot about God and soul, but I have no experience of it; my name is Mind.

Saurabh Sharma

#4. It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least

Voltaire

#5. Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.

Mark Leidner

#6. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

Marianne Moore

#7. I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's ... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.

Susan Sullivan

#8. I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

Muhammad Ali

#9. If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

Alison Weir

#10. To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be.

Cat Deeley

#11. I was supposed to act breezy, but my fingertips are shaking, and my heart won't stop its rapid beating.
I'm giving in. I cannot cave.

Coco J. Ginger

#12. See the gift that change delivers.

Jane Seymour

#13. You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

John Lanchester

#14. Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.

Charles R. Swindoll