Silas House Quotes

#1. Who gives to all, denies all.

George Herbert

#2. Maybe all the trees were God.
A Parchment of Leaves

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#3. Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

Richard Flanagan

#4. When he was nearly thirty-six, my brother Jem got his heart badly broken when his fourth marriage fell apart, mostly because his wife never could get used to Boo, who lived with them and creeped her out by making little wooden dolls of her and putting them in the hollow tree out front.

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#5. In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.

James Shikwati

#6. Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

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#7. Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.

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#8. Writing is a supernatural thing.

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#9. Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart

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#10. I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

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#11. Autumn air is good for the lungs.

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#12. Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

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#13. In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

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#14. Were you BORN inhuman or did you grow so by degrees?! MS, MD, PHD?

Lois McMaster Bujold

#15. Learn how to forgive others, including yourself.

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#16. I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.

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#17. But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Matt Groening

#18. I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime ... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.

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#19. It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.

Jostein Gaarder

#20. If a man wishes to be sure of the road he's traveling on, then he must close his syes and travel in the dark.

San Juan De La Cruz

#21. You are so good. So good, you're always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you're gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, doesn't it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it.

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#22. Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet.

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#23. I don't like anyone who comes and dies in my house on purpose to annoy me," said Lord Caterham obstinately.

Agatha Christie

#24. Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

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#25. I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

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#26. Fitting in is one of those horrible diseases that turn reasonable minds into sheep-gelatin hive minds.

Alida Nugent

#27. There's no romance in geometry," Lindsey answered.
"Just you wait.

John Green

#28. Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

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#29. There is nothing as unreal as life

Jeffrey Lee Pierce

#30. I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?

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#31. Sweetie, you better believe if I have to run, it's going to be me chasing after you.

C.L.Stone

#32. But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data - something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.

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