Alanna Carrington Quotes & Sayings

In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire. — William Blake

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw "the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply "space. — Peter Kreeft

Life has a way of taking you past your wants and hopes. Instead, it drops you in front of what you need. — Shannon L. Alder

To be so near you without touching you is agony. Your blindness to my feelings is a daily torment, and I feel driven to the edge of madness by my love for you. — Julianne Donaldson

After about five minutes had passed, I went outside and they'd gone. When I checked my hand to see if my knuckles were swelling or any bruising was coming up I got a shock, there was false tan on my knuckles! I still chuckle about that to this day. — Stephen Richards

They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house. I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts. — Jacqueline Kelly

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something. — Bryce Courtenay

Legendary manners there, Karim," she commented, her voice calm. "Your mother teach you?"

"I was taught the advantage of surprise," he responded as he walked over to her massive desk. — Katherine McIntyre

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other. — Tim Ryan

I wandered out like a haggard ghost, and there she was, Frisco - long, bleak streets with trolley wires all shrouded in fog and whiteness. I stumbled around a few blocks. Weird bums (Mission and Third) asked me for dimes in the dawn. — Jack Kerouac

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick. — Mike Quade

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears. — Robert Treat Paine

I scurry out to the three-way mirror. With an extra-large sweatshirt over the top, you can hardly tell that they are Effert's jeans. Still no Mom. I adjust the mirror so I can see reflections of reflections, miles and miles of me and my new jeans. I hook my hair behind my ears. I should have washed it. My face is dirty. I lean into the mirror. Eyes after eyes after eyes stare back at me. Am I in there somewhere? A thousand eyes blink. No makeup. Dark circles. I pull the side flaps of the mirror in closer, folding myself into the looking glass and blocking out the rest of the store. My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into dissecting cubes. I saw a movie once where a woman was burned over eighty percent of her body and they had to wash all the dead skin off. They wrapped her in bandages, kept her drugged, and waited for skin grafts. They actually sewed her into a new skin. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee. — Katherine McIntyre

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. — Aldous Huxley

You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge. — Arianna Huffington