66th Rescue Quotes & Sayings

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again — Thomas C. Foster

Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes on a leaden hue, desolation settles in, narcissism gives way to a sad egoism, an absence of generosity. — Roland Barthes

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. — Rick Bayan

Impressive pipe," I tell him. "Should I call you Sherlock?"

He grins. "Only if I can call you Princess."

My head toddles as I think it over. "I'm secure enough in my manhood to stand that."

"Excellent. — Emma Chase

Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs. — Grace Abbott

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal. — Esther Williams

I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again. — Garth Greenwell