Quotes About Corto

#1. I love you, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. There is nothing I would not do for you. Nothing I would not consider if it meant keeping you safe. The world itself should fear me if it stands between us.

Renee Ahdieh

#2. I write about him to make the ghost stories go away. Everything that haunts me.

Abigail George

#3. What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.

Lou Engle

#4. The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.

Mitch Albom

#5. Achan gritted his teeth and recalled Sir Eagan's words. Love was not taking because you wanted, he'd said. Love was sacrifice.

Jill Williamson

#6. I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed ...

James Frey

#7. Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

Franz Grillparzer

#8. Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo,
Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto;
E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto.
(You see both poles at once, the travelling stars in their winding courses, and you see just how limited our seeing really is.)

Francesco Petrarca