I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.
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T. Kingfisher
Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rocklike a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack itand you might get either your first glimpse of a saintor a pile of rubble.
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Lucia Perillo
True or not, it's important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.
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David Toscana
He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?
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Joseph Conrad
More Quotes By Leigh Hunt
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds...
Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of...
When moral courage feels that it is in the right there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
