Aissata Cisse Quotes & Sayings

I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around. — Lauren Oliver

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I'm joining the circus. Although I'm happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands. — Anne Tyler

As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy. — Frank Herbert

My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making. — Penelope Douglas

Serving humanity is not beneath spiritual pursuit — Sunday Adelaja

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real. — Frederick Buechner

Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins. — Richard Kadrey

What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors. — Rita Mae Brown

Small height is not a big problem, small thinking is a big problem; Dark face is not a big problem, dark mind the the biggest problem. — Sujit Meher