Best 14 quotes of Peter Abrahams on MyQuotes

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

In ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, he said it was a capital mistake to theorize without data, because you ended up twisting facts to suit theories instead of the other way around.

Sometimes fear helps, he said. Like fear of flunking a test, so you study. But when bad’s going to happen for sure, fear only hurts.

The bigger the crime, Holmes said, the more obvious the motive. That was one of his basic rules.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered.

You’re born cute. Babies are cute. Not hard to guess why – it’s so everyone will forgive them for being such a pain. You grow a little older, and people say, what beautiful hair, or get a load of those baby blues,’ or something nice that keeps you thinking you’re still on the cuteness track. Then you hit twelve or thirteen and boom, they tell you everything needs fixing.