Odd Quotes

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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. — Simone de Beauvoir
If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to… — C.S. Lewis
Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from… — Susanna Clarke
The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the… — C.S. Lewis
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus. — Dean Young
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles… — Jasper Fforde
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring… — Edward Gorey
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for… — Isak Dinesen
Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone. — Patricia Briggs
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest… — Anne Fadiman
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much… — Douglas Adams
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. — Jim Fergus
There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird. — Charles de Lint
I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's… — A.M. Homes
A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling,… — Sherwood Smith
How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark… — Jasper Fforde
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many… — Sydney J. Harris
The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to… — Daniel Handler
In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a… — Dean Koontz
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite… — C.S. Lewis

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