Authorship Criteria Quotes & Sayings

The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path. — Pope Francis

'Never look back' is my philosophy. — Helen Clark

He's a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless. — Paula Hawkins

Life is travelled at a pace one decides for themselves — Chandra Sekhar

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. — Richard Russo

I like to describe worry or anxiety as spending today trying to figure out tomorrow. Let's learn to use the time God has given us for today! — Joyce Meyer

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human. — Josef Pieper

All sex is a form of longing even as it happens. Because it happens against the crush of time. Because the surface of the act is public, a cross-grain of fear and ruin. She wanted her body to remain a secret of the past, untouched by complexity and regret. She was superstitious about talking to doctors in detail. She thought they would take her body over, name all the damaged parts, speak all the awful words. She lay for a long time with her eyes closed, trying to drift into sleep. Then she rubbed the cat's fur and felt her childhood there. It was complete in a touch, everything intact, carried out of old lost houses and fields and summer days into the river of her hand. — Don DeLillo

Shut up. Just shut up and kiss me — Dominique Eastwick

For Galen," Easel said. "The Separatists want his research. Phara must have promised to deliver him into their custody. — James Luceno

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods. — Jeff Foxworthy

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court. — Adam Haslett

Or so, and then it should be as good as new. See, I can walk — Amy A. Bartol

Why be difficult, when with only a little bit of effort, you can be impossible? — Georgia Cates