💬 Quotes

"He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was nine years old. And he never wanted to come in for dinner."

"The mother went into the room, and she picked up her grown-up son and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth."

"And the mother went home and sang a song to her baby."

"I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my mommy you'll be."

"It was a simple fact that if you sang, you were not afraid of anything."

"The house was full of people who were not meant to be there, and yet they were there, and because they were there, they were the only people who existed."

"Whatever you give up, you lose. But if you give it away, you keep it forever."

"He understood then that the music was not something that happened to you; it was something that you participated in."

"We are all of us alone, but we are alone together."

"In the beauty of the aria, he found a language for the things he had never been able to say."

"Man is not truly one, but truly two."

"I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both."

"He gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point."

"If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek."

"The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition."

"I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end."

"The first month of the war they killed me. They took my arms and they took my legs and they took my ears and they took my eyes and they took my mouth and they took my nose and it was very funny."

"What is a man? Whatever he is, he is not a piece of meat to be fed to the dogs of war."

"If it's a good thing to die for your country, how can it be bad to live for it?"

"Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short."