Quotes About Prentisstown

#1. I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month's time exactly.

Patrick Ness

#2. We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.

Patrick Ness

#3. A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.

Ada Yonath

#5. Every woman is wrong until she cries.

Oscar Wilde

#6. The Roman Catholic portrait at the reception of the Indian YMCA displayed the generic Christ, the timorous, blonde-haired, blue-eyed face upturned to the heavens, a lost middle-class student searching for guidance in an inhospitable world.

Amit Chaudhuri

#7. A stiltskin is magic at its greatest. Pure magic, un-meddled-with and more powerful than any enchantment or spell.

Liesl Shurtliff

#8. I want to do the unspeakable to you baby
then speak about it

Kent Evans

#9. Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

Peter Marshall

#10. Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

James Thurber

#11. Create an atmosphere in which anything is possible.

Thomas Raymond Kelly

#12. If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' " " 'And if the Truth is hidden?' " Toranaga said. " 'It's already clear,' " Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

James Clavell

#13. Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale.

Debasish Mridha

#15. My good fellow," said Mesnil, stopping, "ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to astonish men...men like you.

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

#16. Make of that what you will.

Leif Enger