Quotes About Otori

#1. They reminded me of the people of my village, their indomitable spirit in the face of disaster, their unshakable belief that no matter what might befall them, life was basically good and the world benign.

Lian Hearn

#2. When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

Lian Hearn

#3. Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

Lian Hearn

#4. As his self-defenses seemed to indicate. When the younger employee

Norman Vincent Peale

#5. Shame, however, was what I felt seeping through me as though it stained my white bones black.

Lian Hearn

#6. I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

Zoe Saldana

#7. A librarian can't live by books alone, and I wouldn't eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.

Mike Mullin

#8. He was beautiful. The most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. She wanted to crawl inside his skin, live where he breathed.

Cassandra Clare

#9. It appears that you were meant to be mine only for a little while.

Samantha Sotto

#10. How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

Lian Hearn

#11. The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.

John Henry Wigmore

#12. Compromised gospel produces people that lack understanding

Sunday Adelaja

#13. The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still

Lian Hearn

#14. Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Siri Hustvedt