Babalik Quotes & Sayings

Her throat is tight with fear. She is afraid of how this man, this stranger, has already changed the sensation of being alive. She is afraid he will slip away. — Maggie Shipstead

I should never have left you. I was caught between fealty to my world and fealty to my blood. I chose wrong. I was a king. I held the knife. I acted as a king should. But I did not act as family should. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available. — Jay Maisel

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that. — James Sinegal

The pine shadows moved across my blanket, the wall behind me. People were just like that. We couldn't even see each other, just the shadows moving, pushed by unseen winds. — Janet Fitch

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. — Clive James

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair. — Bikram Choudhury

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go? — Sybille Bedford

Two men. I had just killed two men. A killing machine, I hadn't even hesitated. Fear and rage settled deep in my chest, forming a layer of ice around my heart. — Maria V. Snyder

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away. — Rodney Dangerfield

There is a vibrational effect in every action, just as there is vibration that rings from every letter in every word. — Suzy Kassem