The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
To light a candle is to cast a shadow...
I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
The king was pregnant.
The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
Without war there are no heroes."
"What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.
Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you.
If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,
I always grow poetic when I am lying to myself.
Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.