Novel Quotes

What has been his cause for searching the heavens day and night, for testing the limit of his reach hour by hour like a man trapped inside an expanding balloon? The reasons were as various as the days they consumed: to grasp the workings of the universe, to find something more beyond earth’s fretful compass, to put his name to a discovery and secure fame’s immortality, to be able to point to a map and proclaim simply: here I am.

~ John Pipkin

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.

~ John Pipkin

The heavens are too immense, too beautiful and varied, to fit into the mind of any one deity; the murmured creeds of fathers and sons are no match for the astronomer’s gasp.

~ John Pipkin

Nothing in heaven or earth is content to be alone, and so there must always be something more. The universe is governed by a principle no more complicated than this: that a solitary body will forever attract another to itself.

~ John Pipkin

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.

~ John Pipkin

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

~ John Pipkin

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

~ John Pipkin

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.

~ John Pipkin

Is this not the very thing that drives an adventurous man to navigate uncharted oceans, to traverse continents and mountains, to pilot virgin estuaries and hidden coves—this promise of inscribing a name steadfast upon what he finds? There are few parcels of earth left to be claimed; yet even as the known world shrinks, the heavens grow ever more infinite. An explorer of the skies need never leave his home or fret over the swiftness of other expeditions; he might give whatever name he chooses to any new thing that wanders into his view.

~ John Pipkin

But if watching the sky is to be his duty, how should he begin? Now and then he has spotted one of the five bright planets or recognized a constellation, but he knows little about the turning of the heavens. When he contemplates the great distances between this and that, and the vast multitude of solitary objects spread over the celestial dome, he cannot fathom how one goes about searching for what is yet unknown.

~ John Pipkin

All this simply shows us that communalism and terrorism are nothing but opposite sides of the same coin. They keep feeding on each other in a vicious cycle, resulting in a society full of violence, hatred, sorrow and intolerance. Every communal act is used as a justification for mindless acts of terrorism . Similarly , each act of terrorism is used as a justification for such horrible atrocities like genocide and ethnic cleansing. And, it is always the innocent who get killed. This is the sad truth.

~ Vivek Pereira

Love is the connection between souls synchronized through heart beats. Quote from my upcoming book 'Always Be MINE

~ Neha Daraad

Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.

~ Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

They will try to ascribe a purpose to my death, as though it were a punishment, but don’t you do so, in order that I continue to live in all the shadows of your longing. I will always be in your sleep and your wakefulness. I will be with you praying, propitiating and yearning for you, in sadness, in sorrow, in dismay and in the most profound happiness.

~ Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I feel entranced, ecstatic and besotted by the fragrance of the flowers and this is because of my thoughts.

~ Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

What is the nature of life?Life is lines of dominoes falling.One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you'd planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people dig in their heels, and you're faced with a situation that you didn't see coming, you who thought you were so clever.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

She lifts her eyes, and there is Death in the corner, but not like a king with his iron crown, as the epics claimed. Why, it is a giant brush loaded with white paint. It descends upon her with gentle suddenness, obliterating the shape of the world.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It's absurd how crazy love can make you......but even more absurd how stupid jealousy can make you!

~ Mirella Muffarotto

You said my name and my heart went rogue

~ Zandile

He's made me believe I'm worth love of the liquid kind, you know, the kind that seeps to all my damaged parts.

~ Zandile

And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure.

~ Kanza Javed

I don't know. But it takes a special woman to have such a great love - Zhongwen

~ Asma Nadia

I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win.

~ Carolyn Lee Adams

When he unleashes on her everything falls together. Like a crick in the neck snapped into place, the boy's brain pops and is put right. It is a beautiful undoing, a beautiful becoming. He doesn't stop to think about it when the punches follow her down to the ground. He doesn't stop to notice when she goes still or when the pool of blood under her head pillows out into a great, liquid heart. He doesn't stop until he's pulled off her and he doesn't start to think again until that night, when he's back at home. For hours and hours his brain stays beautifully popped into place.

~ Carolyn Lee Adams

Sometimes surviving is all you can do

~ Emilee King

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

~ C.s. Lewis

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

~ John Green

Funny how much we all suffer trying to spare others a bit of pain.

~ Michael Larocca

Once I was King of the Titans. Now I need a MedicAlert bracelet and a subscription to the Safe Return program. Can you put out a Silver Alert on a god? I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.

~ Michael Larocca

I have a question for you. When you were a little boy, is this the man you dreamed of becoming?

~ Michael Larocca

Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.

~ H.c. Deboard

I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.

~ H.c. Deboard

Schopenhauer wrote that to desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. He was correct.

~ Michael Larocca

At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.

~ Michael Larocca

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

~ Kathryn Joyce

Perhaps all romance is like that, not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life.

~ Jeanette Winterson