Quotes

And so people say to me, 'How do I know if a word is real?' You know, anybody who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real! Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make a word any more real than any other way. If you love a word, it becomes real.
Erin McKean

Art is life, playing to other rhythms.
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog


Eternity eludes us.
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog


It really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things


One must never forget that all things pass: hopes, cats, chairs, life itself, each a spun-glass rose in a monkey's hand.
Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day


They went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief.
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude


She loved herself in love, and she loved loving love, as love loves loving; and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she could have hoped for.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated


We long for the eternal, and I am eternity.
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses


Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today. Today, we're going to jump.
Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound


And we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time