Iona Leroux > Iona's Quotes

“Cindy, have you heard of the second law of thermodynamics?”
“Yes. Something about heat energy can never be created or destroyed?”
“That’s the first law of thermodynamics. The second one is this…all organized systems tend to slide slowly into chaos and disorder. Energy tends to run down. The universe itself heads inevitably towards darkness and stasis. Our own star system eventually will die, the sun will become a red giant, and the earth will be swallowed by the red giant.”
“Cheery thought.”
“But mathematics has altered this concept; rather one particular mathematician. His name was Ilya Prigogine, a Belgian mathematician.”
“Who and what does that have to do with your being a PI and a great psychologist?”
“Are you being sarcastic? Of course you are. Anyway, what I was trying to say was that Prigogine used the analogy of a walled city and open city. The walled city is isolated from its surroundings and will run down, decay, and die. The open city will have an exchange of materials and energy with its surroundings and will become larger and more complex; capable of dissipating energy even as it grows. So my point is, this analogy very much pertains to a certain female. The walled person versus the open person. The walled person will eventually decline, fade, and decay.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

“Margo tilted her head toward her husband asking, “What is it about beach volleyball that captures your attention?”
More than anything I’m amazed how they’re able to keep everything in the proper place when spiking the ball. Makes me want to invest in spandex . . . and of course, their fitness is enviable,” he said, his face broadening into a playful smile.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

“I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
― R.D. Ronald

“The villa on Fjellveien had quickly taught her that quiet could be a kind of noise.”
― D.L. Maddox

“Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“I love your farm, you know I do, but this is your passion. I’m figuring out what mine is. I’m good at marketing. My supervisor says I have a good eye and creative ideas.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

“The bouquet of assorted meats, onions, garlic, thyme, bay and parsley wrapped around her like a warm, familiar quilt.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“Goldberg was a tough, square-jawed New York detective who by various odd quirks of fate now held a position in the US  military administration in London. In 1942, the British government had ceded to the American military police all legal jurisdiction over American troops stationed in the UK.”
― Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer

“It wasn’t easy to walk away from one life, disappear, then start another.”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ”
― Virgil

“Either this is madness or it is Hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is Knowledge; it is Three Dimensions: open your eye once again and try to look steadily.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time, though she hadn't understood why... Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.”
― Anne Rice, The Feast of All Saints

“Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“At the heart of his deepest traumas lay a singular, scorching reality: fire.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like ants at a picnic, teeming from store to store, trailing oversized carrier bags and infants behind them as they went. Scott felt alien in this environment; pulling up his hood he hurried through the crowds, dodging pushchairs, lit cigarettes and charity collection tins.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Few remembered the stories of the days before the end of the Second Age. Those days when all the lands had been under the control of the Council of Five were now wrapped in legends and seemed like fantasy.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

“A base wardrobe is an ensemble of elegantly simple, neutral-hued pieces free of intricate cuts, lavish embellishments, or overpowering prints.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

“History is no longer a university subject, and history lessons are no longer taught at school either. What the hell?”
― Fons Burger, 2125 - The Hibernator: What if you wake up in 100 years?

“From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“I must go in, the fog is rising.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me, I'm sure I wouldn't have had the imagination or courage to do more than shape a single, reasonably sized atom, smooth as a snowball, and let it go at that.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“In Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friends, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years He remembers and opens a single flower to bloom. And If you would be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven … This is the faith in God the cactus has.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One