Virek's Quotes

#1. How could she have imagined that it would be possible to live, to move, in the unnatural field of Virek's wealth without suffering distortion? Virek had taken her up, in all her misery, and had rotated her through the monstrous, invisible stresses of his money, and she had been changed.

William Gibson

#2. The machine, the structure, was there, was real. Virek's money was a sort of universal solvent, dissolving barriers to his will . . .

William Gibson

#3. He's quite horrible, Virek, I think . . ." Marly hesitated. "Quite likely," Andrea said, taking another sip of coffee. "Do you expect anyone that wealthy to be a nice, normal sort?" "I felt, at one point, that he wasn't quite human. Felt that very strongly.

William Gibson

#4. If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.

Zach Braff

#5. Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. It broke me and I broke us.

Paula Hawkins

#7. Well, they came the day after you did, but they made me angry, so I sent them away." Noah did not understand. "Sent them away?" Cord rejoined the conversation. "Ran them out of the house with a rifle." Noah couldn't have shown more astonishment if they'd said a mouse had killed a cat.

Ellen O'Connell

#8. Fearing the future & worrying about repeating the past will always rob one of the present moment.

Timothy Pina

#9. The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity.

Wassily Kandinsky

#10. Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

Donna Jo Napoli

#11. Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

Charlie Munger

#13. The notion of prevention saving money in the long run only works if you actually provide care in the long run,

Anonymous

#14. I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.

Jane Hamilton

#15. And that's when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.

Dennis Lehane

#16. Some moments I believed Max could've easily been Red Riding Hood's wolf. But she probably would have liked it.

Shannon Delany

#17. I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

Mike Weir

#18. Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?

Lilith Saintcrow