Tonio K Quotes

#1. Lijuan warned Raphael I'd make him a little bit mortal.'
'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you've weakened him. You have.'
Elena flinched. 'Elena.'
Shaking his head, Keir waited until she met his gaze again. 'Even an archangel needs a weakness - absolute power is a corruption.

Nalini Singh

#2. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Linus Torvalds

#3. There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.

Charles Dickens

#4. Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff.

Stockard Channing

#5. The engineers of the future will be poets.

Terence McKenna

#6. We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary; we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us.

Eknath Easwaran

#7. The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. He was so rapt in his thoughts that he did not hear anything much that Guido was saying, that lovely bubbling speech of Guido's when he was at last content.
Tonio allowed it to pass over him, and now and then he would give a little gracious nod.

Anne Rice

#9. Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

Arnold Palmer

#10. Got up to fetch a glass of water and, assuming I'd missed the train to sleep, I went up to the study, opened the drawer in my desk and pulled out the book I had rescued from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. You don't need your eyes to love right? You just feel it inside you

R.J. Palacio

#12. I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

Alissa Nutting

#13. Where did you live before you came here?" I asked.
"The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#14. Dark night lay on my eyes, like a veil of black cloves - dust on my feet, at the beginning of the path of knowledge.
Tracer from an invisible hand, a rainbow, fell in my thoughts - I encountered the truth; and truth shall be my light until the end of days.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#15. She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she'd managed so far was a title. How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past.

Cinda Williams Chima