Doe Quotes - Page 18

• Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moral, Sanity, Ifs

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• Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

  Christina Rossetti

  Journey, Wind, Way

  "Up-Hill" l. 1 (1862)

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• 'Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?' [...] '"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right."' I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. 'What does the other part of him think?' Hamlin asks tentatively. 'What her head would look like on a stick...'

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  "American Psycho". Book by Bret Easton Ellis, 1991.

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• Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Father, Butterfly, Thinking

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• It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spring, Winning, Power

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 42, 1955.

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• That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right.

  Angie Sage

  Thinking, People, Make You Think

  Angie Sage (2012). “Darke: Septimus Heap”, p.180, A&C Black

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• Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sex, Men, Suffering

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Jude the Obscure: Easyread Edition”, p.68, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't know what you two are up to," Hobart said. "But you be careful now, you hear? Don't do anything I wouldn't do." "Well now, that doesn't restrict us very much, does it?" Mark teased back.

  Margaret Haddix

  Two, Said, Mark

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• ‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

  John Flanagan

  Boys, Tree, Answers

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• The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

  Thomas Hardy

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 3 (1896)

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• Go out and ask her into the alley.” Clay looked at Jeremy as if he’d just been told to dance the rumba on a public thoroughfare. I bit back a laugh. “Just walk over to her and point at the alley. Maybe say…I don’t know…something like ‘fifty bucks.’ ” I looked at Jeremy. “Does that sound right? Fifty?” His brows shot up. “Why are you asking me?” “I wasn’t—I just meant, as a general…” I threw up my hands. “How am I supposed to know how much a hooker costs?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Hands, Laughing, Clay

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Broken”, p.119, Seal Books

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• Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Kings, Heart, Humble

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1982). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Children, Fear

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• So what are you going to tell her?" "A little help?" I pleaded. "What does she want to know?" He shook his head, grinning wickedly. "That's not fair." "No, you not sharing what you know-now that's not fair.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Want, Littles, Helping

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• Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}

  Alyson Noel

  Fear, Opposites, Feels

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Shadowland”, p.224, Pan Macmillan

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• Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Stars, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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• At least you're learning a thing or two about wine. Good to hear you're making such an effort to improve yourself." "Does the U.S. attorney know how much you like spending your Saturday nights eavesdropping on private conversations?" Nick asked. "The U.S. attorney knows exactly how I like spending my Saturday nights.

  Julie James

  Wine, Night, Two

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.71, Penguin

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• Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

  George Orwell

  Brother, Party, Embodiment

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.296, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.

  Benjamin Carson

  Want, Helping, Realizing

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• But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Plague

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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

  Galen Beckett

  Silly, Purpose, Idiot

  Galen Beckett (2010). “The House on Durrow Street”, p.206, Spectra

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• If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. "Does what count?" "The happiness does it count?". She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Because the truth is, that only what counts, counts....."If you eat fish in a dream, does it count?" Does it mean you've eaten fish?

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Mean, Son

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• Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Goodness

  "Essays" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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• Heritage does not equal destiny.

  Cate Tiernan

  Destiny, Heritage, Equal

  Cate Tiernan (2008). “The Calling: Book Seven”, p.187, Penguin

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