Explore Book Quotes

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”

Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! Mine burns in secret!

“The more intelligent you become, the more problems you’ll have.”

“Whether they will admit it or not, all men love fighting.”

“Joseph takes Mary on an underground journey following a path where she reads the geology as she finds her way to a spot where her father carved his stonemason’s mark. ”

“The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality.”

“They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it.”

“Fox in Socks, our game is done, sir. Thank you for a lot of fun, sir.”

“A staff increase may produce a temporary improvement, but the promotion process eventually produces its effect on the newcomers and they, too, rise to their levels of incompetence.”

“It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, places both near and far, the apocalypse appeared to have arrived and yet it was not apocalyptic, which is to say that while the changes were jarring they were not the end, and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief.”