quotes about Great Novels

“If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.”

“To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time—and to be at peace with that.”

“V-Day...if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for "your loved one" I think it's quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It's all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”

“I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.”

“To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.”

“As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.”

Source : Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.241, Open Road Media

“Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.”

“Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.”

Source : Horatius Bonar (2017). “Follow the Lamb”, p.7, Gideon House Books

“There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.”

“I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.”