Aesthetico Poladerm Quotes & Sayings

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that. — Martha Stewart

most people have better things to do than bother Sylvester, who has a history of permanent solutions to temporary annoyances. — Seanan McGuire

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. — Dalai Lama XIV

That he required me to service him. To think of him above everything else. To allow myself to be willingly used by him in any way he desired. It was why I was a sick person. — Laurelin Paige

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace. — Aristotle.

An angel lay dying in the mist. Once upon a time.
And the devil should have finished him off without a second thought.
But she hadn't. And if she had? Karou had wondered it a hundred different ways. She'd even wished for it, in her blackest grief at the Kasbah, when all she could see was the death that had come of her mercy.
If she'd killed Akiva that day, or even just let him die, the war would have ground on unbroken. Another thousand years? Maybe. But she hadn't, and it hadn't. "The age of wars is over," Akiva had just said, and even as Karou saw what she saw and no possibility of mistake, and even as her whole being gathered itself into a scream, her heart defied it. The age of wars was over, and Akiva would not die like this.
The blade entered his heart. — Laini Taylor

Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other people's interests — Bangambiki Habyarimana

When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not adamant! — Thomas Hood

Henry James would probably roll over in his grave if he knew he was in any way responsible for this book. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to fall back on. So they seek it by adopting and pleasing patriarchal standards. — Sue Monk Kidd