Winter Chalk Quotes

#1. [On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Diane Ackerman

#2. Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

Benjamin Rush

#3. The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

Armand Salacrou

#4. The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

Laozi

#5. Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him.

Lois Lowry

#6. Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#7. The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.

George Carlin

#8. A sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

Sarah Addison Allen

#9. The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Edmund Waller

#10. It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami

#11. I am in awe of Ruth Draper.

Annette Bening

#12. Curious make you clever, that most people aren't curious it's their problem.

Deyth Banger

#13. When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

John Rhys-Davies

#14. I am not anybody's, Will. My heart is my own.

Cassandra Clare

#15. She believes that her daughter was in agony and that she chose not to suffer; she needs to believe that through her death Kim now lives on a higher plane. "Why else are flowers so beautiful?" she says to me. "why is the sky such a perfect shade of blue? There has to be more than the here and now.

Jill Bialosky