Ashlings Quotes & Sayings

I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself. — Kobe Bryant

Nita drank her tea, watching Roshaun read while he maneuvered the lollipop from one side of his mouth to the other. The bulge it produced looked very out of place against his otherwise flawless facial structure.
Roshaun felt Nita's gaze resting on him, and looked up. "What?"
Nita controlled her smile. "The lollipop ... "
"What about it?"
"I hate to say this, but you're kind of spoiling your grandeur."
"What grandeur he has," Dairine remarked.
"Kings are made no less noble by eating," Roshaun said. "Rather, they ennoble what they eat."
"Wow, who sold you that one?" Nita said. — Diane Duane

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Serge bowed his own head and closed his eyes God, please protect us from your followers. Amen — Tim Dorsey

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. — Joyce Cary

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand. — Philip Guston

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. — Iris Murdoch

You said to me, I didn't take the risk in giving myself to you that meant I was saying you weren't worth the risk. And that holds true the other way around. What happened sucked, Hawk, beyond sucked. I'm pissed at you and my heart still bleeds for your loss. But even so, you're standing right there saying I'm not worth the risk. — Kristen Ashley

Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow it just as it is necessary for the wheels of a clock to follow the weights and the spring that pulls them. — Marin Mersenne

For a moment they all looked at Dermot incredulously, as if he'd just announced he was going to birth a kangaroo. — Charlaine Harris