Author Ken Poirot Quote Quotes & Sayings

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture. — Richard Mabey

I want to protect you while at the same time I want to shatter you," he murmured against my lips, "but only in the best way possible. — Samantha Young

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential. — Ruud Gullit

It's in a neighbor's house fiction begins. — Dermot Healy

Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of their different tribe, now since the coming of Christ, live familiarly with them, and pray for our enemies, and endeavor to persuade those who hate us unjustly, to the end that they may become partakers of the same joyful hope of a reward from God the ruler of all. — Justin Martyr

The gift of patience opens when our body, heart, and mind slow enough to move in unison. — Mark Nepo

That girl was not treated well, and when anyone is hurt like that - especially a child - the hurt burrows down inside and makes a kind of museum there, with images of the bad times displayed on every wall. Some people try to forget the museum exits and keep their mind occupied with drink or drugs or food, or by staying busy with work or they chase one kind of excitement after another, while memories fester there in the dark. — Roland Merullo

What is life without this? which was why, in the end, it was I, and not her, who blurted out, not once, but many, many times, You'll kill me if you stop, you'll kill me if you stop, because it was also my way of bringing full circle the dream and the fantasy, me and him, the longed-for words from mouth to mouth, which was when I must have begun using obscenities that he repeated after me, softly at first, till he said, "Call me by your name and I'll call you by my name," which I'd never done in my life before and which, as soon as I said my own name as though it were his, took me to a realm I never shared with anyone in my life before, or since. — Andre Aciman

Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage. — Charles Hazlewood

Self-Evaluation is healthy and constructive. Denial and self-delusion is DESTRUCTIVE. — Michelle Cook-Hall

Tell me, Rose. Who did this? On his knees a mere two feet from her, he had to restrain himself again from pulling her into his arms. — Melanie Dickerson

Hand closed around the — Vi Keeland

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me — Duane Michals

When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read. — Mary Street