Day Quotes
We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.
I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s not so easy, moving forward.
There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.
For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population.
The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.
A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.
Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.
I cross-examined him and he double-crossed me but that's fine
Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers"! HS/el
Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.
Republican and Democrat are simply two different factions of the same ruling party, and their congressional battles are primarily over political spoils, not political ideology
Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
...CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.
Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.
Never, do you hear me? I will give up my friends, my country, my duty, and even my honor—but never you.
That seems to be another habit of yours. I get broken, and you fix it.
I am needed here. Atlantis can burn in the nine hells for all I care. I have sacrificed enough to Poseidon. My days as high priest are done.
I’ve trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.
Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price.
Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.
Alaric, go after her. Since Daniel forced the blood bond on her, Quinn has been different. Lost. She deserves better than for you to abandon her and, priest or no, you know it.
Always you, since the moment I first lay my hands on you to heal that bullet wound. SinceI fell inside your soul. Don’t you know that by now, Quinn?
I don’t care about his quest for redemption. I don’t want him anywhere near Quinn, ” Alaric snarled. “I will leave for St. Louis as soon as we adjourn this meeting.”
Lucky for you, since you’re the most dangerous man I’ve ever met. Asane woman would run away from you, not toward you.
You don’t always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else’s problems. Sometimes it’s okay to let somebody else worry about you.
So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.
Anyone can talk, but to listen is a gift, we should all exchange
I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.
If all I had was all that money could buy, I'd be bankrupt!" EL
Sometimes I found it hard to believe that the person in the mirror was me.
What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.
And then—what?—you graduate from Alice to Frodo to Darth?
I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up, " I whispered."Don't give up, " she whispered back.
Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.
As he stretched out his legs, Siraj let out a deep sigh and smiled. I wonder what Prince Bahir’s blonde surprise will be wearing. I'm guessing it won't be a habiya.
Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350)
Good boundaries, created by the use of good intimacy skills, keep a committed or intimate relationship lightly balanced between the needs of the individual and the needs of the relationship.
On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.
The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
I'd stop the world from spinning for you."That silly line oddly touched me. "I love you.""Liked that one, did you.