The Commoner Quotes

“Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, The Commoner

“By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, The Commoner

“Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, The Commoner

“Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, The Commoner

“Better to be impossible than measured in centimeters”
― John Burnham Schwartz, The Commoner

“The old dos not accept the new. Not, at least, the new that never was old.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, The Commoner

“life is not an echo, endlessly returning the past to us so that we might read and reread in its fading variations the meanings we cannot keep ourselves from wanting.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, The Commoner