Swann's Way Quotes

#1. I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.

Lydia Davis

#2. You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.

Leonie Swann

#3. Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

Lynn Swann

#4. One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

Marcel Proust

#5. The body is the temple of the heart. How shall we reach the sacred image unless we enter the gates?

Thomas Burnett Swann

#6. A properly trained lybrarian is one of the most fearless and fearsome beings in the world!

Jen Swann Downey

#7. Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.

Lynn Swann

#8. I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me.

Marcel Proust

#9. Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.

Jerry Rice

#10. A man's love for a man is neither more nor less than a man's love for a woman, it is only different.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#11. Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

Lynn Swann

#12. Be sure to volunteer to make your community a better place. We all win when everyone gives.

Alexandra Swann

#13. To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I felt my deepest love, for a woman who did not appeal to me, who was not my type!

Marcel Proust

#14. He's my never - the person who I should have ended up with, the one who shakes your soul, but timing was never right.

Renee Swann

#15. ...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#16. I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child

Thomas Burnett Swann

#17. Rapunzel shivered as she felt the tantalizing warm breath of the leopard and the vibrations from his panting tickle and tease her in such an intimate place.

Bella Swann

#18. A story always ends just when it comes to an end. Like a breath.

Leonie Swann

#19. Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

Lynn Swann

#20. But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.

Marcel Proust

#21. Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

Leonie Swann

#22. I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.

Marcel Proust

#23. I am an Angel of the Light. You should not be touching my sweet, innocent flesh this way. I am a Vessel of Purity, undefiled by the pleasures of the flesh.

Bella Swann

#24. As she walked, trying to find a hotel--any hotel--she was offered at least ten different ways of getting high, four or five ways of getting laid, and at least one way of getting even.

S. Andrew Swann

#25. Anahita mewed contentment as she snuggled even closer to Imamiah. She was enjoying her interactions with Imamiah very much. She could not understand why angels remained as spirit when this flesh was so much more pleasurable.

Bella Swann

#26. It is always pleasant to divulge a secret under dramatic circumstances.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#27. They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves (p. 223).
Melmouth, of the George Flock in Three Bags Full

Leonie Swann

#28. Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life's experience in the plurality of existence and measured in a love shared?

Don Swann II

#29. I never stopped loving you." - Troy.

Renee Swann

#30. The real legacy of Christian homeschooling is people who grow to adulthood and influence a new generation of children. And the greatest tribute possible to the homeschooling parent is to see that work carry forward.

Alexandra Swann

#31. I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

Lynn Swann

#32. This God sounds rather suspicious to me, said Mopple.

Leonie Swann

#33. But the harshness of his steely glare was compensated by the softness of his cotton gloves, so that, as he approached Swann, he seemed to be exhibiting at once an utter contempt for his person and the most tender regard for his hat.

Marcel Proust

#34. This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

Lynn Swann

#35. Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Lynn Swann

#36. Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt - that would be fun!

Marcel Proust

#37. For Swann was finding in things once more, since he had fallen in love, the charm that he had found when, in his adolescence, he had fancied himself an artist; with this difference, that what charm lay in them now was conferred by Odette alone.

Marcel Proust

#38. She lay there like a beautiful lace covered present for the troll with her sweet hands wrapped up in the red bow of Lilith's red silk thong.

Bella Swann

#39. No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.

Leonie Swann

#40. If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

Lynn Swann

#41. Justice!" bleated Othello.
"Justice!" bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn's sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd.

Leonie Swann

#42. Professional sports is a business.

Lynn Swann

#43. Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

Lynn Swann

#44. Life was indeed good for a Wolf-Creature in the deep woods who had found his very own little red-headed chew toy.

Bella Swann