A.S. King Quotes
In life, there are dreary, empty days and there are exciting, full days. You will experience both, for you cannot choose one above the other. May your full days be many.
Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.
But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.
The problem with love is that there is so much of it to give." King Tommy
Underneath the groundyou can't hear a soundnot even the sweet falling rainyou might forget about tomorrowforget about the swallowsbut they won't forget youthey won't forget you
Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.
I read the first few, " said Jackaby. "I've instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it to him to decide if that was for politics or paranoia.
There are books stacked high around them - the way opportunity and possibility are stacked around them.
A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and not the solution.
The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects the existence of our own world.
You're born thinking you're the centre of things, and they chip away at that until you expire muttering If I knew then, or some nonsense in an empty rooming house.
It's way too easy to get used to losing, it does something small to you.
Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.
It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?
I don't care to be pretty, " Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.
Therefore, God elected the people of Israel to reveal authentic worship and the pursuit of ultimate wisdom so he could reinstate order to a chaotic world.
When the Creator touches the Creation, the Creation becomes creative.
The way I’d put it, ” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.
She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.
There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight.
As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.
All due respect to Romeo and Juliet, but I don’t think love is sacrifice at all. Real love is when you let another person make you better. You don’t lose yourself in love—you find yourself there.
Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.
You aren't ugly, my dear. Do not listen to anyone who would say so, even yourself.
Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn't melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.
Regret is more than inevitable, it's a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.
It’s the beauty that helps us return from the harshness. If it wasn’t there, we would have nothing to live for.
She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally.
It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall
I denied Discordia and regret nothing
I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind, " said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.
There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.
Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.
May life continue to inspire you for good works and an, inevitable, outcome. May wisdom never fail your endeavors . . .
Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.
True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.
The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.
On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?