Akbayan Quotes & Sayings

I just need to look at you."
"Then keep looking, kiddo," he said. My heart may have melted like a pat of butter on hot bread. "Because I'm looking at you. I don't think I could ever stop. — Karina Halle

I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.'
'Think I don't know that?'
'What did you start out to get, Esme?'
Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground.
'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose. — Terry Pratchett

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials. — Vanna Bonta

Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. — Henry David Thoreau

My first kiss ... and it was everything I'd imagined it to be, with the exception of there being an audience for it. But it was hard to acknowledge them or their cheering and whistles. Flames scorched my already heated skin. Dez's lips moved against mine, working the tight seam open. I gasped, wondering where in the world he'd learned to kiss like that. Jealousy flared like a beacon on the heels of that thought. Okay. I didn't want to know how he'd learned. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness. — Frank Herbert

Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me? — James Comey

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again — Charles Finch

God has brought me to Kentucky ... the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification. — Thomas Merton

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art. — Ingmar Bergman

The night of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5. — Aron Nimzowitsch

Time passes at the same speed until romance enters. From that very second the priceless commodity becomes erratic and unstable by accelerating whenever they are together and slowing to an excruciating crawl whenever they are apart. — Carl Henegan

A mind, once formed, is never suited after,
One yet in growth will ever grateful be. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe