Abadilla Street Quotes & Sayings

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. — Kate Millett

I close my eyes at his intimate touch. It's a slow movement, not one meant to seduce. It's one to show how much he loves me, and I flatten my lips, fighting the urge to cry. Noah nudges me toward him and if it wasn't for his hold, I'd drop like a house of cards.
I fall into him, and Noah wraps me in his arms. "It's okay, baby. We're okay."
I cling tighter to him, because it doesn't feel okay. For the past two months, life was good and easy and everything I dreamed it could be. Despite my efforts, the muscles at the corner of my mouth tremble. I wanted to be done with tears and with whispered comments thrown in my direction like knives and with this overwhelming sense that I'm less and that I'll never belong. — Katie McGarry

I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about — B.J. Penn

Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like music
pg 52 — Milan Kundera

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat. — Tom Morrison

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system." — Frances Fox Piven

If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it? — Jewel

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. — Billy Bob Thornton

We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love. — Erich Fromm

If we don't take inventory every once in a while and give thanks to God for the great things He has done for us, we get totally out of perspective. — David Jeremiah

When we looked at God's wisdom, we saw something of his mind; when we thought of his power, we saw something of his hand and his arm; when we considered his word, we learned about his mouth; but now, contemplating his love, we are to look into his heart. — J.I. Packer

So you truly do not believe in God?"
"I find no reason to, in nature ... If the idea of God is unknown in the state of nature, it must then be a human invention. — Umberto Eco