Wisbech Quotes

#1. Most men wanted to tell you what they knew. The route to Wisbech. How to get a log fire going. David made her feel she was the one who knew things. He

Mark Haddon

#2. She slowly turned her head and looked at him. At his attractive, open face that could turn dark and reserved within seconds. The curve of his lips. The green eyes that looked into her a little too far and that she couldn't defend herself against.

Kai Meyer

#3. Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Emil Cioran

#4. But hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

Charlie Fletcher

#5. Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

Sandra Bowden

#6. Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still ... nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

Emily Dickinson

#7. One's family is made up of supporting players in one's personal drama. One never supposes that they starred in some possibly gaudy and certainly deeply felt show of their own.

Robertson Davies

#8. My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.

Michael Marshall Smith

#9. Sometimes the apple rolls very far from the tree.

Sara Pennypacker

#10. Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.

Johan Cruijff

#11. The spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing - and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness.

Thomas Watson