Sichel Lu Quotes

#1. Who wanted a hug you had to ask for? It was like having to ask for an apology.

C.C. Hunter

#2. Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3. I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. such as first-grader Vladimir's sporting a wristwatch,

Masha Gessen

#5. The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.

Samuel Chadwick

#6. Which was worse? Mourning the loss of something without knowing you never actually had it, or mourning the loss of what you thought you had and never had at all?

Susan Meissner

#7. You got a name?"

"Uhad Ul-badir Taruk Ultani," the wizard said with a small dip of his chin.

Jackal blinked. "That name is a fucking nightmare. I'm going to call you Crafty.

Jonathan French

#8. Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#9. A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. "Get more away. I've been fighting this computer all day long. I swear, if you blow out my hard drive again, I'm taking it out of your ass."
"Why would your hard drive be in my ass?" I said.

Jim Butcher