H. T. Leslie Quotes

All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.

I close my eyes and melt in its embrace, basking in the sweetest balm of forgiveness: that for which one need not even ask.

You are always going to love him, " she said. " You're stuck with that.

You are always going to love him, she said " You're stuck with that.

One of the worst things about burying a child is the stress of wondering.

.....what happened to my little brother had to fit into my life, not consume or define it.

It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see it, a love so fierce it could swallow itself completely.

Oh, pish, " Penelope said. "Anyone can fly. Anyone with a friend.

Whatever form it might take, enjoy the magic! Remember, Disneyland is all about you.

Fantasyland was designed as a home for some of the classic characters [from those films], and as a symbol of the magic, hope and beauty of the human imagination.

Eventually I would learn that the enchanting tree was one of the resort's signatures, one of those subtle delightful touches that resonate on poetic, artistic, and even spiritual frequencies.

True success is not measured by how much you have achieved but by how many times you've failed

My whole world started to tilt. I could feel it, sliding ever so slightly off center.

A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

Heart...Soul...Words

I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow!Droplets run down the wall, where do they go?Letters in the raw, mesh together for the show!

Today I write, riots with insite!Tomorrow I read, take the lead!Sometimes I sleep, health to keep!But for now I write, and got no gripe!

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

Ironically, pretending that parenting is easy diminishes the value of family. As truth seekers and truth speakers, we need to be honest about the cost of parenting.

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades.

facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

Plan to make good choices.

Words both written and read are my passion.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that sustained and consecutive thought. It is the hardest work in the world.

If you are to become what you are meant to be, you have to first find your real meaning!

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

It is hard to dislike someone you know if that person is someone you value.

Anybody can act violently--there is nothing to it, but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.

No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us.

If looks could kill, she’d be a dead woman.

It’s a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills.

A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl’s immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.

Murder was apparently too common-place in the big city to attract much notice. Poor Luther, thought Lucy, as she headed back to the hotel. Even in death he was only a big fish in a small pond.

Lucy had no complaints about her dinner. Anything was fine with her as long as she didn’t have to cook it.

It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.

terrorism n.Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly on political violence.

conservative n.A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny.liberal n.A person who believes in liberty, but only for the state.

preemptive strike n.A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of being adverse to one's plot for world domination.

When a man looks into a mirror and can no longer see his own reflection... he has lost his way.

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

Few seem to be able to eat a turkey leg at Disneyland without splattering tsunami scale grease, so grab plenty of napkins or wear a bib, tablecloth or scuba suit.

Lust is like a robin attacking his reflection in a pane of glass again and again.

I didn't enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy.

Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough.