Adelman Peony Quotes & Sayings

Once I knew, then I forgot. It was as if I had fallen asleep in a field only to discover at waking that a grove of trees had grown up around me.
"Doubt nothing, believe everything," was my friend's idea of metaphysics, although his brother ran away with his wife. He still bought her a rose every day, sat in the empty house for the next twenty years talking to her about the weather.
I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!
My friend's empty house with every one of its windows lit. The dark trees multiplying all around it. — Charles Simic

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies. — Charles Soule

Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory! — Thomas A Kempis

You usually can't go wrong if you state the obvious. — Glenn Andrews

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. — W. Somerset Maugham

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place. — Charles Duhigg

Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'
'Only one, huh?' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then. — Richelle Mead

You never really own something until you're able to give it away. — Bill Nichols

This is not, however, an ideal Universe, — Douglas Adams

But he's mad, completely mad, and he turns his wives into golems. He needs killing, not negotiation. — T. Kingfisher

Laura shook her head, fresh tears streaming down her face. "Even Nick won't try to convince Mama! I refuse to talk to him." I shook my head, trying to shut my trunk. Overloaded, it wouldn't close.

"Don't do that - he's your brother."

"And I hate him. I hate everyone! I just want to run away from home . . . or set it on fire. Or set Miss Verinder's house on fire! Oooh, we should do that, Evelyn! — Tarun Shanker