The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
I have but one life to give to adventure.
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.
So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
Painting dissolves the forms at its command. . . it melts them into color.
Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting Will, though, and she didn’t fancy her chances. “You don’t know James Carstairs. Don’t speak about him. ” “Love him, do you?” Woolsey managed to make it sound unpleasant. “But you love Will, too. ” Tessa froze. She had known that Magnus knew of Will’s affection for her, but the idea that what she felt for him in return was written across her face was too terrifying to contemplate.
We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, certainly we've got an obligation to try.
In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.