Quotes from Paul Gallico

What are cumulus clouds?' Manxmouse asked. Everything was so new and different... and up here in the sky it was wonderfully quiet and exciting, peaceful and thrilling all at the same time.

What are cumulus clouds?' Manxmouse asked. Everything was so new and different... and up here in the sky it was wonderfully quiet and exciting, peaceful and thrilling all at the same time... They rose on a column of warm air. Manxmouse thought what a wonderful thing it must be to be a hawk and be able to live up here in the quiet of the sky.

Ama bir ÅŸeyi yeterince çok istersen her zaman çare bulunur.

Pepino, there is something you must understand before we go to see the Abbot. It is your hope that because of your faith in St. Francis he will help you and heal your donkey. But had you thought, perhaps, that he who dearly cared for all of God's creatures might come to love Violetta so greatly that he would wish to have her at his side in Eternity?

Father Polda had walked up from his little chapel in Steg, as was his nightly custom, to sit and talk with the men and their families, for it was mostly under the sun and the stars that he preached, or sought the God that he served.

A fib such as the above did nobody any harm, while a lie was deliberate, told to save yourself or to gain an unfair advantage.

Father Polda smiled in the darkness. None of the saints had been left out. A big, generous man, he was meticulous with regard to the catalogue of the holy, and even though those whose duty it was to deal with witches and dragons might be thought to have been outmoded by the modernity that was coming to the mountains, he was glad they were still included for politeness' sake and memory of past favors, if nothing else.

And so, in a sense she made a prayer, and having done so, it existed; it was loosed. It was directed at the figure of the one whose love and duty called for her to intercede at the throne; and as with all prayers that arise from the sincere and loving heart, it was both heard and felt, in the far corners of the universe.

Without her, life for him would be something but half-lived, that to give her up would destroy not one, but two humans who together had found beauties and satisfactions of physical and spiritual relationship not dreamed of by most...