AUTHORS




"You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been."
-Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)



"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life."
-Herman Melville (Moby-Dick)



"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour."
-charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)



"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
-Jules Verne (Journey to the Center of the Earth)



"By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmanent by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct."
-Edgar Allen Poe (The Murders in the Rue Morgue)


BOOKS




"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
-Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)



"No man knows 'till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
-Bram Stoker (Dracula)



". . . what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
-George Eliot (Middlemarch)



"This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
-William Shakespeare (Hamlet)



"Just breathing isn't living!"
-Eleanor H. Porter (Pollyanna)


INSPIRED BY BOOKS & STORIES




"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
-Frank Herbert (Dune)



"Sometimes it's better to do something wrong than right."
-Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)



"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)



"What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder."
-Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)



"Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal..."
-H.P. Lovecraft (The Tomb)