Wildhorn Snorkel Quotes

#1. And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face.

Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, "Lies."

Excerpt from "Lies

Angela B. Chrysler

#2. A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

Silvia Tennenbaum

#3. Stay strong," said the detective. "They respect strength."
What the hell was she supposed to do? Break a chair? Bench-press a Volvo?

Kathy Lyons

#4. Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

Felix Dennis

#5. There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

#6. There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Bottome

#7. And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#8. They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins.

Ransom Riggs

#9. Fools and the dead are not governed by logic. Survivors are.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. An old woman with a mutch sat in an arm-chair behind the counter. She looked up at me over her spectacles and smiled, and I took to her on the instant. She had the kind of old wise face that God loves.

John Buchan

#11. The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#12. Today he told Erec "Fun is for having. It is the one thing that is forever." Erec agreed.

Kaza Kingsley

#13. And I too change perpetually - now this, now that - now disappointed and peevish because all is not exactly as I had pictured it, and now suddenly discovering that the reality is far more beautiful than I had imagined it.

Elizabeth Gaskell