GoodReads Quotes

2016-07-15 14:18:01 “My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even more so to remember that the men, women, and children all involved in and affected by this era were not just statistics: they were people just like we are, with the same hopes, dreams, and very imminent fears.”
― J. Neven-Pugh Open / Comment

2016-07-15 14:17:59 “I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.”
― Michael Cunningham Open / Comment

2016-07-15 14:15:05 “I think it's our obligation to play, Honor. It's just a game, so can I kiss you?”
― Robin Bielman, Blame it on the Kiss Open / Comment

2016-07-15 14:15:00 “I believe that man is here to grow into the fullest, the best that he can be. At least this is what I want to do. As I am growing to become whatever I become, this will just come out on the horn. Whatever that's going to be, it will be. I am not so much interested in trying to say what it's going to be. I don't know. I just know that good can only bring good.”
― John Coltrane Open / Comment

2016-07-15 14:15:00 “Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.”
― Helen Wells, The Hidden Valley Mystery Open / Comment

2016-07-15 14:15:00 “A higher speed on the wrong path is very is fatal! Don’t be desperate about going ahead with the highest speed. First of all, be sure you are on the right track.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365 Open / Comment

2016-07-15 14:14:59 “I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help Open / Comment

2016-07-15 14:14:57 “Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits anyone who, answering to his vocation and fulfilling it, exerts himself within history; only the man who sacrifices every gift and talent escapes: released from his humanity, he may lodge himself in Being. (...) One always perishes by the self one assumes: to bear a name is to claim an exact mode of collapse.”
― Emil Cioran, The Temptation to Exist Open / Comment

2016-07-15 14:12:03 “If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.”
― Kelly Bryson, Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others Open / Comment

2016-07-15 14:11:59 “The man was absolutely beautiful. Vampire. Warrior. Whatever Shan Quesada was all man.”
― Sara Humphreys, Vampire Trouble Open / Comment