The Book Of The Eternal Rose Quotes

#1. From death we gain knowledge of life, and from this knowledge we may one day vanquish death.
-The Book of The Eternal Rose

Fiona Paul

#2. The Black Death announces itself by the appearance of foul, egg-sized swellings that erupt on the bodies of its victims, followed by spreading boils and hideous discolorations of the skin. So excruciating is the pain that death, when it comes, is a mercy.
-The Book of the Eternal Rose

Fiona Paul

#3. The heart is divided into four chambers, two to a side. When one side fails, the other must follow, and the body dies.
-The Book of The Eternal Rose

Fiona Paul

#4. The human body is a book of secrets, covered in skin and written in blood. Those who which to learn its mysteries must be unafraid to open it and study its entrails.
-The Book of The Eternal Rose

Fiona Paul

#5. Religion would have us believe that immortality is reserved for the gods. We remain skeptical.

Fiona Paul

#6. Gratitude is my chief erotic emotion.

Edmund White

#7. I started something with Test, but I don't know what it was.

Stacy Keibler

#8. Chicago is an extremely rough place to grow up in. Especially if you're the only brother on the block that's into bumpin' Alanis Morrisette ... So 'You Oughta Know,' I moved to Oregon.

Ron Funches

#9. Well, to be fair, he's in a situation where intelligence does rather go out the window," Cross said. "I have a theory that women actually siphon off our cleverness during the courting phase, and keep it for themselves. Which is why they always seem to see the endgame before we do.

Sarah MacLean

#10. Certain living things prefer the dark, thriving in the shadows of tombstones and crypts, flowering admist the dead. Others tend toward the sun, blooming in the light, embracing the warmth.

Fiona Paul

#11. The water that flows through the canals is both beautiful and deadly. Its tranquil surface belies that toxins beneath-unpleasant to touch, deadly to imbibe.

Fiona Paul

#12. There is no pleasure in this world like the company of friends," said the Mouse, "and no pain like losing them.

Simon R. Doubleday

#13. I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.

Zach Condon

#14. True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.

Ernest Renan

#15. Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.

Jack Thanatos

#16. Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

Kate Clinton

#17. Every man has a last choice after the first, a chance of forgiveness. It is not too late. Turn. Come to the Light.

Susan Cooper

#18. a God-centered view of truth demands that we affirm that all truth is God's truth. That which is true is true because God said it, created it, or decreed it.

Keith A. Mathison

#19. You meet a better class of person in pubs,

Oliver Reed

#20. Belief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation.

Thomas Troward

#21. Madness weakens the mind and disease weakens the body, but nothing destroys the spirit like the loss of a true love.

Fiona Paul

#22. Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

Crystal Gayle

#23. Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

Fiona Paul