Roderick Townley quotes

“The sun shines. Readers read.”
-- Roderick Townley

#Shining Quotes #Sun Quotes #Reader Quotes

“Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.”
-- Roderick Townley

Source : "The Great Good Thing: The Sylvie Cycle, Book One". Book by Roderick Townley, 2001.

#Amazing Life Quotes

“When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.”

“The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.”

“I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.”

“Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.”

“How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?”

“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.”

“At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.”

“Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.”

Source : Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

“A book brings its own history to the reader.”

“An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.”