Creatures Quotes - Page 24

• God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

  N. T. Wright

  Creation, Committed, Humans

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• Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cutting, Rocks, Hands

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• He shouldn't have said that," repeated Adrian, eerily serious. He leaned his face toward mine. "I don't care if he's not the emotional type or the complimentary type or what. No one can look at you in this dress, in all that fire and gold, and start talking about anachronisms. If I were him, I would have said, 'You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Emotional, Fire

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• We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.

  Pascal Mercier

  Color, Soul, Mind

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.334, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can’t see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself — soul-less and evil. You’ll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Air, Long

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• (...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Littles, Size

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.637, e-artnow

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• You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kind, Goddess, Grass

  "Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Alive, Wonderful, Dangerous

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• Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

  Charlaine Harris

  Christmas, Dry Leaves, Holiday Traditions

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• ...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

  Libba Bray

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.

  Charles Darwin

  Stars, Self, Heaven

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

  Eoin Colfer

  Boys, Scratches, Earth

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.749, Penguin UK

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• I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures, but a love with no name and no explanation, like a river that cannot explain why it follows a particular course, but simply flows onwards. A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Children, Father

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.

  George Saunders

  Running, Cheer, Children

  "George Saunders's funny, sad stories from a divided nation" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2016.

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• Thank you to the world for being a wild and inspiring place, full of odd creatures, strange people, and mysterious cities. I hope by and by to know you better.

  Laini Taylor

  Cities, People, World

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• Can I ask you a question? You know with vampires and werewolves and goblins and things, is there any mythological creature that doesn't actually exist?" "Of course," he replied. "The unicorn and the leprechaun would be would be the two main ones. The Loch Ness Monster isn't real, either, that's just someone called Bert.

  Derek Landy

  Real, Two, Vampire

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.140, HarperCollins UK

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• All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.

  Betty White

  Fields, Bears, Harmony

  "Fictional character: Rose Nylund". TV Series "The Golden Girls" ("Love Under the Big Top", 1989), www.imdb.com. 1985–1992.

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• What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Fear, Drinking, Blood

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• Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sweet, Savages, Gentle

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Selfish, Worry, Want

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• ...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Years, Land, House

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). “Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

  Tamora Pierce

  Horse, Kings, Men

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Lioness Rampant”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Animal, Thinking

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• I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Animal, People

  "Outpost". Book by Ann Aguirre, 2012.

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• We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

  Cornel West

  Two, One Day, Delight

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