The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
H.G. Parry
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Every supporting character is the protagonist of his own story.”
“you know when you read a book, sometimes, and you suddenly realize that you’ve been missing something your whole life, and you weren’t even aware, and all at once you’ve found it and are just a little bit more whole?”
“I thought you said everything in a book has meaning.” “It does! That doesn’t mean it means what you want it to mean!”
“I don’t care what everyone says, damaging books is worse than damaging people. People heal up. Books never do. The marks always show.”
“History is every bit as much of a story as fiction.”
“Truth, at least complete truth, isn’t held in words. But there would be no truth at all without them. It lies behind them and lurks around them and shines through them, in glimpses of metaphor, and connotation, and story.”
“Something has to be heard to be ignored. He heard me this time, and he ignored me.”
“Kind people don't make things happen. They try to prevent bad things from happening, and they fail, and they live in fear of that failure. So do those under their protection”
“It scares the living daylights out of everybody. Present company excepted, I’m sure.” “I don’t really do living or daylight,” Dorian said. “I’m a Gothic masterpiece.”
“What we see when we look at people is just a bundle of our own interpretations”
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Book Keywords:
living-daylights, fear, ignored, heard, dorian-gray
