Salvaged Quotes from Books

"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."

~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven."

~Bible

"Behold, he that keepth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."

~Leon Uris, Exodus

"Don't judge me or my actions by anyone elses standards."

~unknown

"My dream comes to me when my eyes are wide open and when I
close them, it is in search of sleep, not of the vague wraith."

~Kathleen Woodiwiss, Ashes in the Wind

"Those of you who do the killing have to live with how you did
the killing -- and why."

~Melanie Rawn, The Dragon Token

"How can I determine what is love? When a man and a woman begin
to understand each other, love begins small and grows with the
passage of time. It is that which a man holds within himself
until it blooms to its fullest."(Cole)

~Kathleen Woodiwiss, Ashes in the Wind

"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues
of life."

~Karleen Kolen, Through a glass darkly

"In body or soul, somewhere he struck a spark, and an answering
fury of passion and need sprang from the ashes of surrender...I
bit his lip and tasted blood."

~Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

"Well, I say it is the place of science only to observe. To seek
cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many
things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not
because it does not exist, but because we know too little to
find it."

~Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

"...I have an ode:
'Ah, lives there a man with a soul so dead, who never to
himself hath said, as he hunched and rolled in his comfortable
bed: To hell with the rent...I'll drink instead!'
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the
roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library
cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and
warm bodies and contraceptives...and to the 'good life',
whatever it is and wherever it happens to be."

~Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway (letter to Sally Williams)

"One comfirms with a cynical smile which says 'I'm smart because
I just appear to be a conformist: I'm really a secret
individualist.' The smile also says 'I lack the courage of my
convictions': you have to be lisetening, though, to hear it say
that. One gets tired of listening."

~Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway (letter to Kay Menyers)

"An absence of need for Illusions"

~Anne Rice, Vampire Lestat

"For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure"

~Gerald Gould