Zomburbia Locations Quotes

#1. What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.

Kristin Cashore

#2. I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium.

John Steinbeck

#3. Raffe holds me a second longer than necessary before he puts me down. And then it takes me a second longer than necessary to slide my arms away from his neck.

Susan Ee

#4. Year's end still in straw hat and sandals

Matsuo Basho

#5. It wasn't the New World that mattered ... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. If we obey God, we shall be his treasured possession.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.

Gail Godwin

#8. Drowned, dead, duplicitous slut!

Christopher Moore

#9. As William Plumer of New Hampshire complained, It is impossible to censure measures without condemning men.

Gordon S. Wood

#10. I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

H.P. Lovecraft