Augustus Quote by John Green

“It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures.”

— John Green

“They were creatures grasping at life with stained hands.”

— Laini Taylor

“Promise this — never to raise your hand against a living creature, either to strike, pluck, or eat, without first recollecting its mother, who…

— David Lindsay

“His mind immediately seized on this metaphor and when he looked down at his wet hands he saw that they had taken on the…

— Christa Faust

“An elusive creature, the fabled coincidence.”

— Mike S. Elton

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of…

— Ben Lerner

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms…

— Ray Bradbury

“I loved those Latin words for their dignity, their foreignness, and the way my tongue had to wrap around them. I felt that in…

— Abraham Verghese

“What was amazing was that their small delicate hands were touching, their monkey fingers leaning into each other. It was clear that it was…

— Mark Nepo

“What is it about a hand that seems quintessentially human? The answer must, at some level, be that the hand is a visible connection…

— Neil Shubin

“There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake…

— Jim Butcher

“Lucretius wrote in The Nature of Things:        Especially since this world is the product of Nature,        the happenstance        Of the seeds of things colliding…

— Marcelo Gleiser