Asistencia Legal Quotes & Sayings

It was Dolana, at the salt farm, who first told me about the gaze of men: that look of temporary possession that some men pressed against female flesh. About its dangers and possibilities. It can be used to survive, Dolana had said softly, showing me the power that lay in reflecting a man's desire. And even at twelve years old, the knowledge of it was already in the way I moved my head, my hands, my shoulders. But Dolana had whispered her secrets to a girl. And I had to become a boy. I had to stop being alert to the turn of a man's head towards me. Stop glancing up to meet his gaze in fleeting connection. Stop falsely veiling my eyes from his momentary interest. It was hard to train out of my body, but I practised and learned to cloak myself in the skin and gaze of a boy. — Alison Goodman

If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will. — Catherine McAuley

One of the officials of the party had irritably decided that the President was clearly not in a mood to read the deliciously turned speech that had been written for him, and had flipped the switch on the remote-control device in his pocket. — Douglas Adams

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing. — Pearl Bailey

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly. — Richard Linklater

It's so much easier to get high than how scary it must be to see who you actually are and take responsibility for it. Denial is an easy place to live in. — Rosario Dawson