Bent Quote by Susanna Clarke

“How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“They are English,” Merriman said. “Quite right,” said Will’s father. “Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We’re an odd lot.”

— Susan Cooper

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“My name is Abraham van Helsing. And I’ve seen more than you can possibly believe exist.” “I don’t recognize your accent, boy. Where do…

— Peter David

“...there was an extraordinary mute passage between her vision of this vision of his, his vision of her vision, and her vision of his…

— Henry James Samuel Guntrip

To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special

— Drew Hayden Taylor

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so…

— Anthony Hecht

“He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called mysterious.”

— Lao Tzu

Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.

— Anonymous

“We passed a street minstrel who was singing in one of the more obscure Eastern languages, and I dropped a few orbs into his…

— Steven Brust

The problem with depicting what's weird and what isn't is that it's got to this point of near total oversaturation. There's definitely a threshold…

— Oneohtrix Point Never