Adoptees For Justice Quotes & Sayings

You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you". — Catherynne M Valente

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive. — Ratan Tata

I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial. — Lexa Doig

I will not like everyone, not everyone will like me, and that is OK. — Gudjon Bergmann

At the ponds that evening I said to Antonio: "It's always been like that, since we were little: everyone thinks she's bad and I'm good."
He kissed me, murmuring ironically, "Why, isn't that true?"
That response touched me and kept me from telling him that we had to part. It was a decision that seemed to me urgent, the affection wasn't love, I loved Nino, I knew I would love him forever. I had a gentle speech prepared for Antonio, I wanted to say to him: It's been wonderful, you helped me a lot at a time when I was sad, but now school is starting and this year is going to be difficult, I have new subjects, I'll have to study a lot; I'm sorry but we have to stop. I felt it was necessary and every afternoon I went to our meeting at the ponds with my little speech ready. But he was so affectionate, so passionate, that my courage failed and I put it off. — Elena Ferrante

Some people think it's comforting to imagine being flung over a rainbow when you die, grabbed by your ankles by a bluebird, and swung into the void. — Maria Dahvana Headley

The head alone knows what dwells near the heart. — Anonymous

A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth. — Tim Crouch

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is ... 42! — Douglas Adams

Hooking up with a tall, dark stranger in a bar wasn't anywhere on her to do-do list, but as she eyed those broad shoulders, the thick neck, strong-looking hands, and gorgeous mouth ...
What the hell, maybe he should be on the top of her "to-do" list. — Ophelia London

People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience. — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry. — Ivana Milicevic

If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there just to brighten it up. I feel the same way about old golf courses. When you have a masterpiece, I sure wouldn't tinker with it. — Ray Floyd

I closed my eyes and saw the future, a red, fleshy blob pupating in dark fluid like something in a mad scientist's incubator. I saw strange organs throbbing beneath its translucent shell. Saw the future bust from its chrysalis in scattering blazes of diamond light, winged and glistening, already flitting out the window, darting off toward the horizon before I could get a good look at it. — Julia Elliott

I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I'll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I'll think about a career path. — Laurie Halse Anderson