Alleluias By Simon Quotes & Sayings

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful. — Lauren Groff

Reading is an addiction that I adore. — Vianka Van Bokkem

It was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect on him, that Swann remarked Odette's resemblance to the Zipporah of that Alessandro de Mariano to whom more people willingly give his popular surname, Botticelli, now that it suggests not so much the actual work of the Master as that false and banal conception of it which has of late obtained common currency. — Marcel Proust

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. — Chuck Palahniuk

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. — Bayard Taylor

Not everyone is your friend. When you are psychic you tend to forget that others don't view life the way you do. — Frederick Lenz

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men. — Charles M. Schwab

My father prided himself on maintaining traditions that were hundreds of years old. You'll feel as if you've stepped back into the eighteenth century."
Her brows lifted in surprise. He could see the wheels turning in her clever brain, but she chose merely to nod, and perversely, though he knew he would not like it, he wanted to know what she was thinking. "Go on. Say it."
"It is nothing. Only - you are very much a man of the nineteenth century."
"You mean you're not surprised I left such a backward place."
"Such a backward place must be crying out for a man like you." Ainsley pushed her windswept hair out of her eyes. — Marguerite Kaye

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time. — Joakim Zander

When we did not know God, we did not live according to His plan; we planned our lives independently and we had lives full of ups and downs — Sunday Adelaja

Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere. — Victoria Strauss

It never gets easier. Somehow, grief becomes a routine part of life. It never leaves, you simply learn to live around it. Looking — Nicola Haken

I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version. — Chuck Palahniuk

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only. — Max Muller

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. — Chauncey Depew