Alobars Quotes & Sayings

What turns to stone is inside you. — Jeannette Walls

A man who reads will find himself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You know how they say that right before you die your life flashes before your eyes? It doesn't. That is just a notion they came up with for books and movies to make death seem romantic. Here's what really happens: Your intestines feel like a dishrag that's being wrung dry and your stomach acts like a balloon when you let the air out of it — Dinah Katt

I desire a person, not a gender. — Matthew C. Ehrlich

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism. — Aleksandar Hemon

Short cuts make long delays,' argued Pippin. — J.R.R. Tolkien

That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess. — Nelson Mandela

Locking away appetite, anger, the fullness of life, anorexia helps cover up whatever struggles inside. With its controlling bouts of bingeing and starvation, of trance and half-life, it becomes a shield to fend off despair and longing and what most of use would see as ordinary responsible behavior. — Carol Lee

Medea and the sacred wolf, J. Malachi thought. Somebody help me, I'm going to rehab in a Greek myth. — Eve Tushnet

Fire he sang,
that trees fear, and I, a tree, rejoiced in its flames.
New buds broke forth from me though it was full summer.
As though his lyre (now I knew its name)
were both frost and fire, its chords flamed
up to the crown of me.
I was seed again.
I was fern in the swamp.
I was coal.
("A Tree Telling of Orpheus") — Denise Levertov

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation. — Agnes Repplier