A Quotes
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“And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?”
“And how do we achieve immortality?"
"Immortality ! Produce a thought, and spread it in the universe. Just keep doing it, produce and spread.”
“And how do you confess to a beautiful woman that you can't fulfill a relationship because you're tormented by the presence of another woman that doesn't even exist?”
Source: Trapped in a Dream
“And how do you explain to your wife that you don't have all the answers, and that you might not know what you are doing, and that you are afraid you are going to fail? How do you admit that you are most afraid that, one day, she'll walk - and replace you with an educated, professor-type guy, who shares her same interests, schedule, and the way she was used to living, especially when all of your friends, your business associates, even your own damned brother, are all just waiting for you to mess up so they can have a shot at taking her away from you? How do you look the woman you love in her eyes and tell her that?”
Source: Love Notes
“And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”
Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“And how do you know that you're mad?”
Source: The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
“And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.”
“And how do you plan on appeasing the spirits of the dead if you do go the land of the dead?"
Jimena looked at her strangely. Was she serious? "What do you mean?"
"You're going to their house. What do you have to offer them so they will let you leave?"
Jimena thought a long moment. What could the dead possibly want from her? And then she remembered her grandmother's oraciones for her grandfather. "My prayers."
"Prayers?" Jimena could sense the woman's disappointment. "I remember a time when a blood sacrifice was made. People slaughtered the pride of their herds."
"I don't have any cattle or sheep," Jimena offered. "I live in the city."
The woman snorted. "No one really believes in the mythical world anymore. Once people poured libations for the dead."
"Libations?"
"Milk and honey, mellow wine, and water sprinkled with glistening barley. Prayers? Well, I guess that is a modern equivalent. I suppose prayers will have to do.”
Source: Night Shade
“And how do you propose we sort this out?" His voice was wonderfully hoarse.
She smiled, a devilish glint in her eyes. "Oh, I'm sure we can figure something out." Her gaze dropped to the hefty bulge in his pants.
Dear God.
Her mouth suddenly went dry. Her bravado faltered. She wasn't nearly
as confident as she pretended.
Unconsciously, she licked her bottom lip. If possible, the prodigious
bulge seemed to grow a little bigger. He appeared to be in a great deal of
pain, but Elizabeth was discovering that she had a rather ruthless streak
when it came to this man.
She approached him slowly,”
Source: Highland Outlaw
“And how do you really feel?
Like I'll never recover. Like I'll never draw another breath without half of it being a wish for him.”
Source: Zero at the Bone
“And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.”
Source: A Soldier of the Great War
“And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.”
Source: History and the Reader
“And how good it feels to pound some villains!!”
Source: ヴィジランテ ―僕のヒーローアカデミアILLEGALS― 1 [Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals 1]
“And how hard, father, to grow old, and die, and think we might have cheered and helped each other! How hard in all our lives to love each other; and to grieve, apart, to see each other working, changing, growing old and grey. Even if I got the better of it, and forgot him(which I never could), oh father dear, how hard to have a heart so full as mine is now, and live to have it slowly drained out every drop, without the recollection of one happy moment of a woman's life, to stay behind and comfort me, and make me better.”
“And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.”
Source: The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three
“And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.”
Source: The Good News of God: Sermons
“And how his audit stands who knows, save Heaven?”
“And how if I were the kind of person who deserved her, everything would be more clear.”
Source: Conviction
“And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.”
Source: Style: The Art of Writing Well
“And how is your head? Better?" he asked.
"Very much. Sometimes it hurts." Right now it was throbbing. "But every day I am much improved."
"Where did you hit it? Are you bruised?"
I put a hand to the back of my head, a little to the left, where I had landed with such jarring force. "Here," I said. "It's still a little tender."
And leaning forward, he touched my hair right where I had just laid my hand. Such was he glamour that attended him that I expected the ache to instantly melt away, healed by his royal caress. But in fact, I felt a sudden leap in my heart that made the pain briefly more intense.”
Source: Summers at Castle Auburn
“And how long would the life in me stay alive if it did not find new roots?
I behaved like a starving man who knows there is foot somewhere if he can only find it. I did not reason anything out. I did not reason that part of the food I needed was to become a member of a community richer and more various, humanly speaking, than the academic world of Cambridge could provide: the hunger of the novelist. I did not reason that part of the nourishment I craved was all the natural world can give - a garden, woods, fields, brooks, birds: the hunger of the poet. I did not reason that the time had come when I needed a house of my own, a nest of my own making: the hunger of the woman.”
Source: Plant Dreaming Deep
“And how lucky am I to have found a friend like you?”
Source: Finding a Friend
“And how many Daeva children died when your people invaded? Far more than the Geziri children who will be lost tonight."
Muntadhir stared at him in shock. "Do you hear yourself? What sort of man plots that calculus?" Hate filled his gray eyes. "God, I hope it's her in the end. I hope Nahri puts a goddamned knife through whatever passes for your heart.”
Source: The Kingdom of Copper
“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.”
“And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!”
Source: Everyone's Mark Twain
“And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“And how old are you?” she asked, playing for information.
“Older than you.”
She laughed. “You’re not like sixty, are you?”
Sixty? Did I feel sixty when she touched me?
I stopped what I was doing and got down in her face. “Old enough to vote, not old enough to buy liquor,” I told her. “But I can still get liquor. If you want.”
She just grinned and let it go.”
Source: Kill Switch
“And how’s your family?” he asked.
“Still dead.”
Source: Terminal
“And how sad it is that the last face someone makes at you is always the face you remember the most.”
Source: The Answers
“And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?”
Source: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
“And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me”
“And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.”
“And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.”
“And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes.”
Source: Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters
“And how they take one in, with their manners and their mock wistfulness and gentleness.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?”
Source: I, Juan de Pareja
“And how unfair it would be to torture your heart in never feeling again, because of a feeling you haven't even tried to understand yet.”
“and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love”
“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!”
Source: Love Over Scotland
“And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes to pass, I fear, And I am sorry it is so. It will come to pass by violence and upheaval, by flame and by fury, for no change comes calmly over the world.”
“And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“And humans? They might not have big claws or immortality or the ability to phase through walls like some kind of video-game boss.
They didn’t command armies of darkness or speak in frequencies that could shatter reality.
But they had other shit. They were stubborn as hell — resourceful in ways that bordered on pure insanity.
Back us into a corner, threaten what we love, and we become absolutely fucking vicious.
Sean had a gun, a bad attitude, and friends worth dying for.
This is Sparta, motherfuckers.”
— K.J. Eraets, Hollow Deep: The Echo of the Dark Forest (2025)”
Source: Hollow Deep: The Echo of the Dark Forest
“And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans.”
Source: The Vaster Wilds
“And humans will accept any story, however outlandish, when there's something in it for them. Preferably something green that folds.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.”
“And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.”