Day Quotes

I'd found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again.

What could be more intimate than dying with someone?

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)

...wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.

If life is becoming a race, could it be time to slow down?"el

I refuse to sit and wait for salvation. Every day I have looked to the sky for the white streak of a plane making its way across the Pacific, but I have not seen any.

Clearly it is God's will to place me in such a predicament, " declared Philias loudly to a procession of stunned passers-by, "So God can jolly well point me towards salvation.

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.

No-one ever built a statue of a critic.

Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

You can't expect to reap a harvest that you're not willing to plant.

Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

Does life teach us anything more, I wondered, than not to cry over all there is to cry about?

I want the peace in knowing that is wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.

The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you can live fully in the present.

But it's the science of the stars!""She thinks it's Satanic. You gave her daughter a pentagram.""It's a natal chart, duh. You can't let ignorance trump science here, Miss Mary!

My passion is to see ordinary believers receive extraordinary answers to their prayers.

I fell asleep that night in the arms of a killer. I'd never slept better.

We are all a little damaged, Bee. Some of us more than others.

Sick, twisted Abby was in love with the sick, twisted, beautiful Jake.

I need to know if you would like it if I put him to ground for you.

For the first time in a long time a bit of something I was unfamiliar with crept up inside me.If I hadn’t known better, I’d have thought it was hope.

Why do you want to touch me? I'm nothing. I'm no one.

He thrust into me as if he were trying to climb into my soul.

I think, therefore I am, dangerous.

Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.

I won’t lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who’s had you—you’d be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.

The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free.

Eva, " she said exasperated. "You should've established a personal style by now-and it shouldn't be sweats!"Monica, Eva Tramell's mother, in "Reflected in You

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid, " She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

The only one who can make two wrongs equal a right, is He who works all things together!" HS/el

Love you always, miss you always... running day and night, leaving the place of sun and moon, of ice and snow.Never look back, never forget.

Remember, whoever is funny is king.

I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.

In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.

I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. They’ll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.

A son for a flag is a lot of sacrifice.

The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.

I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.

Military life is hard, even cruel—especially for the kids.

We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won’t let us move forward.

This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.