Scoured The Earth Quotes

#1. I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were ... miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

John Green

#2. Anxiety. Dissociation. The words came easily. We attach them to processes, they migrate to the people themselves, and we think: Now I understand. But we don't, and the words themselves interdict further attempts to do so. Maryanne

James Sallis

#3. Storm. I shall call her Storm.

John Gwynne

#4. How inexplicable and enviable, never to want to be anywhere other than where you already are.

Cristina Alger

#5. It cast an unholy glow all around him - which was entirely appropriate, because Julian was as seductive as mortal sin and as haughty as the devil.

L.J.Smith

#6. Your word is the power that you have to create

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#7. Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.

Anonymous

#8. Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

Cornelia Funke

#9. While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

Mason Cooley

#10. If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

George Muller

#11. From this day forward, you will be my sun at dawn and my stars at night, and I vow to love and cherish you for all our days.

Marissa Meyer

#12. There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

George Eliot

#13. She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother

Lorrie Moore

#14. It doesn't have many roots,' I say. 'Not yet,' she says. 'That will come.

Ally Condie

#15. I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

Spike Jonze