T.L. Swan Quotes

What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.

Smiles are a funny thingand laughter is hilarious.I smile sometimeswhen I am delirious.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

Take control. You are a strong, independent woman.

Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't.

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?

My beautiful swan. My savior and my undoing.

You're an infinite soul, a spark of Consciousness, and your perception is a creative decision you're continuously making.

The world is a hungry place, and Anna will feed it beauty.

There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!

To ugly ducklings everywhere, Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:They'll never get to be swans

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

I hear they make greeting cards now to thank your therapist... for NOTHING

-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly, and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it

I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!

We float in language like icebergs – four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience.

It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.

End of story. ‘Happily ever after’ fell on everyone like a guillotine’s blade.

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.

Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.

Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive.

Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life

It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of understanding, and give a cover to our past actions.

Soul mates don’t finally meet somewhere at a certain place at a certain time, they’re in each other, all along.

Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project

The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)

Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

WHAT COMES FROM THE HEART TOUCHES THE HEART.

One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.

The implication of this particular tale is: Trust strangers. Believe in magic.