'Curiouser and curiouser!' Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Yes, the Führer decided that he would rule the world with words. “I will never fire a gun,” he devised. “I will not have to.” Still, he was not rash. Let’s allow him at least that much. He was not a stupid man at all. His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible. He planted them day and night, and cultivated them. He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany …. It was a nation of farmed thoughts. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
If everyone else in the world were to mysteriously disappear, I would feel irritated about it only because there would be no one to make me doughnuts. Dearly Devoted Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
If the wages of sin are death, why don't more people die immediately?
More people don't die instantly because God is gracious and slow to anger. He decides to delay the punishment for sin and give people opportunities to repent. While severe punishments should remind us that death is the natural consequence of sin, instead we think God is mean. While delayed punishments should remind us that God is slow to anger, instead we think we don't really deserve death. We end up taking God's mercy for granted. God Behaving Badly, David T. Lamb
And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without. Looking for Alaska, John Green
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.
‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.' The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch, George Eliot
And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers--shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle--to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
