Alentadoras Quotes & Sayings

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you. — Harry Truman

With a hand on the back of his neck, Raleigh pulled him down until their foreheads touched. "I love you. I want to suffocate you in your sleep with your pillow sometimes, but I love you."
Steven chuckled and nipped Raleigh's full bottom lip. "I love you too, Cony." Running his fingers through the back of the thick black hair, Steven urged Raleigh forward. "Please don't murder me in my sleep." Their lips met. — J.L. Langley

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. — Michael Cunningham

Emma couldn't look away from Mike's eyes, they seemed to glow for a second, but there was something she couldn't place. She found herself leaning closer and her gaze dropped to his lips, she was so close she could feel his breath on her face. Her mind was telling her to pull back, but her hormones were urging her on. — Amanda Clark

Karen told me about an old woman who was the last surviving inhabitant of one of the Hermit Islands. She was the only one left who could speak her tribe's language, but the anthropologists didn't realize it and never bothered to learn it from her. When the old woman died, the language died with her. — Jerzy Kosinski

Comforting others can be tricky. It can get real sticky, if we think we are the comforter. There really is only one comforter. — Art Hochberg

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go. — Mason Cooley

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. — Haruki Murakami

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples. — Wallace Stegner

Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying? — Marcel Proust

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate. — Marcus Aurelius