House Quotes

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

Writing is a supernatural thing.

The patient is the one with the disease

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.

Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.