Bahareh Sharafi Quotes & Sayings

My smile faded as we reached Ellsberg and I realized I would see Farah within minutes. Suddenly, I was terrified.
"We've been apart for a month," I said after Judd called Cooper to say we were nearly there. "While Farah made a great life for herself, I was letting myself starve to death in a shit motel. I'll ruin everything for her and she'll stop loving me."
"Angel, your sister needs you too."
"No, she doesn't," I said, panicking now. "She's got Cooper. She's got school and friends. I'm not good at anything. I'll mess everything up."
"Farah sees what I do and that's why she needs you. — Bijou Hunter

Intellect and love are made of two different materials. Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all tangles and risks everything. Intellect is always cautious and advises, "Beware too much ecstasy," whereas Love says, "Oh never mind. Take the plunge!" Intellect does not easily break down, whereas love can effortlessly reduce itself to rubble. But treasures are hidden amongst ruins. A broken heart hides treasure. (5) — Various

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too ... she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Miami Heat has the best fans. — Shaquille O'Neal

In the United States, meaningful financial reform has tended to be crisis-driven. That is an unfortunate fact, for several reasons. It means that our regulatory system has been defined and redefined under extreme rather than normal conditions. It means that financial regulation is more reactive than proactive. And it means that we must endure serious dysfunction, if not a major calamity, before fixing problems - financial excesses that typically have been recognized and acknowledged long before the crisis hits. — Henry Kaufman

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it. — Jorge Luis Borges

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks — Tyne O'Connell

I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn't choose. — Sue Monk Kidd

The Global Financial Crisis (2008-?); it is not a matter of noblesse oblige as of vitesse oblige. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Always ask, 'Do you love me?' before saying, 'I love you. — Vinita Kinra

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school. — Sharon Van Etten

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. — Gwendolyn Brooks