The Marbury Lens Quotes

#1. All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.

Alphonsus Liguori

#2. A world between my fingers.

Andrew Smith

#3. A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.

Leo Baeck

#4. Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.

Andrew Barrett

#6. I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on ... By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

James A. Baldwin

#7. It's no wonder I became a monster, too.

Andrew Smith

#8. A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Francis Picabia

#9. It was the simplest thing to do, loving someone, only it was the hardest thing, too, because it hurt.

Elizabeth Brundage

#10. Women carry on. They endure the way old ships do, breasting into outrageous waters, ache and creak, hull holed and decks awash, yet find anchorage in the ordinary, in tables to be wiped down, pots to scrub, and endless ashes to be put out.

Niall Williams

#11. Not a very pretty world, is it?"
"Which one?

Andrew Smith

#12. I am going to build something big for you.

Andrew Smith

#13. There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

Jacqueline Carey

#14. God, this kiss. It was the kind she'd remember forever, that would invade her dreams and haunt her in quiet moments. The kind her older self could look back on and know, once, she'd really lived. The kind that, no matter what, she could never, ever regret.

Laura Kaye

#15. Mind the gap, Jack

Andrew Smith

#16. Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

Stella Adler

#17. Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Alan Shepard

#18. I think everyone's an arrow like that, too, aiming into their own centers.

Andrew Smith

#19. We fell in love instantly, sparks flew. It was like we had met before.
We had trouble understanding each other over the years. But our love has grown stronger through accepting ourselves and each other.

Tina J. Richardson

#20. Keeping your head above the water only works if the air is clean.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. But Jack doesn't cry.
Maybe.

Andrew Smith

#22. I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

Federico Fellini