“When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.”
Source: The Wallet of Kai Lung
“Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.”
Source: ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more
“Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.”
Source: ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more
“Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.”
Source: The Wallet of Kai Lung
“How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told with honesty and heart, held me in my seat to the very end. I have discovered a new favorite writer in Christine MacLean.”
“People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.”
“Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.”
Source: Young Fredle
“When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.”
Source: The Callender Papers
“History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.”
Source: The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
“Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own”
Source: Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth