Ahmadzai Standard Quotes & Sayings

That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea - that stirring landlocked children know so well - moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead. — Catherynne M Valente

One tragic example of this orientation is the rampant prescription of painkillers, which now kill more people each year in the United States than guns or car accidents. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author
then perhaps it is time to throw the book aside, as having had its day, and start again on something new. — Doris Lessing

One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse. — George R R Martin

He took the diary from Mother's hand and turned it over. The heartbreaking something, he read, of a tragic whatever. — Shalom Auslander

Let your head climb back down through your throat and into your body so it can see just how good you look when you're not compared to anything. — Buddy Wakefield

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. — Charles Peguy

When you move as much as I have ... you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn't work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship used to be like, why you liked that person. And I hated it. And I just didn't want to do it again. Not with you. — Morgan Matson

Life is an adventure in forgiveness — Norman Cousins

The six people you must find today ...
Someone to love.
Someone to thank.
Someone to be grateful for.
Someone to forgive
Someone to forget
Someone to admire. — James Altucher

I, Lexi Anderson, am proud to say that I do, indeed, have a great personality.
And it's only a matter of time before the Beautiful People will be wishing they had great personalities, too.
Good luck with that, oh Beautiful Ones.
Because we Great Girls are the rarest breed. — Elizabeth Eulberg

Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself. — Michael Josephson

Life! Don't talk to me about life! — Douglas Adams