33 Quotes by Nathan Lowell

Your home is full of joy, Sadie. And joy isn’t neat.

She smiled. It was not a pretty smile. It did not make her weather worn face light up. The bones of the earth were her teeth, her breath was the wind, the fires of the earth were alight in her eyes, and her blood pumped with the strength of the sea.

I prefer to make my mistakes on purpose rather than by accident.

I made a mental note to figure out some way to stop making mental notes and start making real notes. That way I might be able to delegate a few of them, and even remember what they were.

Just a bunch of people who happen to work in the same place. No unity. No interdependence. It becomes easy to beat up on each other. Easy to have a ‘what’s in it for me’ attitude.

Your reality shifted just enough for you to question what you thought you knew.

Yeah. Well, I sometime embroider the truth a little.” “Embroider? I’ve seen less needlework on twelfth-century tapestries.

Damn it, Jimmy, I’m an accountant – not a fishermen.

Snakes don’t think like that. To miss their shed skins they’d have to be aware in the same way people were. They’d have to recognize that the old skin just didn’t fit any more and that to miss it would be negating the value of the new one. They’d have to understand that the new skin couldn’t have come into being without the old skin going before and being cast aside.