Shutter Island Book Quotes

#1. Young people ... have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing
not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness
so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

Louise J. Kaplan

#2. Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

J.C. Ryle

#3. When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be . . . not everything you wish they won't become.

Jodi Picoult

#4. America, land of coupling, land of sanctioned marriage and two-person twined knots, land of tireless good-citizen living, land of the happy family, land of the free and the brave and the locked imagination, land of ignorant homeowner masses lined up in twos.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#5. One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

Chuck Todd

#6. I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.

Bev Perdue

#7. Really?" I asked when they were gone. "Did you have to say that?" "I speak my mind, Sage. Don't you believe in telling the truth?

Richelle Mead

#8. There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation.

Aline Ohanesian

#9. Not knowing the name of the tree,
I stood in the flood
of its sweet scent.

Matsuo Basho

#10. Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Richard Paul Evans

#11. I'm not big on lip color, but I like to have a little something.

Anna Kendrick

#12. We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#13. Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

Lionel Messi

#15. Truth leads to wealth.

Daniel Marques