Ataraksi Quotes & Sayings

In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over. — Nikky Finney

She worried that maybe they'd been dating too long to end up together. It was like when you tried to jump off the high dive and if you did it right away, you were fine. But if you stood there looking down, thinking of all the bad things that could happen, you were doomed. You would just climb back down the ladder to the safety of the ground. — Jennifer Close

[ ... ]after spending so long with someone [ ... ] they eventually begin to see through all of the things you think you're hiding from them so well. — J.A. Redmerski

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. — Arthur Koestler

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother. — Elizabeth Gaskell

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans. — Jerry Lewis

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle. — Ernest Holmes

I feel relaxed now, I mean supernaturally relaxed, like I'm left out butter. — Jandy Nelson

She just seemed to be a woman absolutely in need of the right book. There was, Nina was fervently convinced, one out there foreveryone. If only that went for everything in life. — Jenny Colgan

I palmed each side of her face and dropped my forehead to hers. "I love you. I love you. I love you. — Aly Martinez

Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going - -I want to experience that, too. What I found out is that it's very interesting, but it takes much longer because you have so many false starts. You take wrong turns and you have to go back and start the whole chapter, or the whole section, from scratch. — Daniel Kehlmann

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years. — Paula Deen

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. — H.G.Wells