Book Quotes: King And Beyond.

[GNTLGNT]

“There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain. And, going further, what did Time look like? Time look like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, 100 billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded. And tonight-Tomas shoved a hand into the wind outside the truck-tonight you could almost taste time.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

 

[lowman]

There are other worlds then these.
Stephan king. (Dark tower series)

 

[Doc Creed]

"It was a sad array of dream-ghosts that were always there, ready to dance, at any moment the mind idled. This had been my malady since childhood: an inability to calm my mind."

-The Devil's Hearth, Phillip DePoy

 

[Saragirl]

The sun was below the western hills but a great powdery cloud scooped it's light and threw it on the harbor and the breakwater and the sea beyond so that the whitecaps were pink as roses.
-The Winter of our Discontent, Steinbeck

 

[Doc Creed]

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love ’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.

-Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare

 

[skimom2]

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
― George Orwell, 1984

 

[Tery]

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things. ~~ Neil Peart

 

[Spideyman]

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

 

[Saragirl]

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

 

[Kurben]

One of the best sonnets or poems overall i have read. He was a genius.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)

 

[Doc Creed]

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”

― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

 

[Doc Creed]

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”

- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

 

[Tery]

“Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?”
― Neil Peart

 

[Arkay Lynchpin]

"Despair is hope stark dead, presumption is hope stark mad."
- Thomas Adams

 

[Doc Creed]

"O God, Horatio, what a wounded name,
Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Absent thee from felicity a while,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain
To tell my story."

-Hamlet
Act V Scene II

 

[Tery]

A few from Terry Pratchett:

The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.

Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.

It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Mods, please delete this. It's just too personal. I had ambivalent feelings about it. Thank you.

....beautifully done my friend...glad I was able to experience before the wrapper was replaced....you indeed are gifted...

 

[Doc Creed]

....beautifully done my friend...glad I was able to experience before the wrapper was replaced....you indeed are gifted...

Thanks, GNT, I just felt gun shy about posting it...much less among published/established authors. Thanks for the generous comment.

 

[Dana Jean]

Mods, please delete this. It's just too personal. I had ambivalent feelings about it. Thank you.

Done. It was very good.

 

[Doc Creed]

Done. It was very good.

Thank you, DJ.