Explore Book Quotes

“He’s a wonderful man, without his living likeness; but I feel that I have to screw myself up when I dine with him,—and I dine more comfortably unscrewed.”

“Wasps like coffee, Syrup, tea, coca-cola, butter, me. I am very fond of bugs, I kiss the, and I give them hugs.”

“The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

“Some tale-tellers say the Beams saved it; others say they are the seeds of the world’s destruction. ”

“A small fish who wants to see the world beyond his pond is befriended by a cat who has other plans for the voyager.”

But there are things that you know not, but that you shall know, and bless me for knowing, though they are not pleasant things.

“The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.”

“Tell Mary to leave me alone. I don’t want this power she’s giving me.” “She’s not giving you the power, miss. Just showing you the way.” “Well, I don’t want to follow! Do you understand, Mary Dowd?”

″ I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”

“When they were done, the dough was left to rise till the loaf was a mountain in shape and size!”