Accoutumance Quotes & Sayings

I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of. Sometimes it is a named person from the common cultural dreamscape. And it is tricky, because they have a lot of associated ideas that come with them, and a lot of actual facts. — Dana Spiotta

It dropped ice to the bottom of his stomach. He thought of the ruined bodies he'd seen, including the ones he himself had ruined. He realized that he had somehow expected that he'd never have to think again about the way people damage other people.
The night of the invasion. Kestrel's back. His own. Roshar's scarred face. His own. — Marie Rutkoski

I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children. — Sandra Tsing Loh

The birds on the branches, the lilies in the field, the deer in the forest, the fishes in the sea, countless hosts of happy men, exultantly proclaim: God is love. But underneath all these sopranos, supporting them as it were, as the bass part does, is audible the de profundis which issues from the sacrificed one: God is love. — Walter Lowrie

Nothing you wear is more important than your smile. — Connie Stevens

Antony and Cleopatra: "what love, what accomplishments, what repetitions of natural affections passed between them is not for vulgar minds to imagine, none but so great hearts know them. — James Shapiro

It's a strange principle but it's true, nevertheless, that those who give the most have the most of whatever they give. — Norman Vincent Peale

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade. — Marjorie M. Liu

Because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man. — Louisa May Alcott

Maybe God's throwing all our troubles at us now, when we're young and strong enough to deal with them. Which means someday our lives will be incredibly boring. — Karen Ann Hopkins

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God. — Joel C. Rosenberg

It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning. — Maya Angelou