Barefoot Gen Quotes & Sayings

I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love. — William Shakespeare

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you. — Mark Lawrence

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me? — Margaret Stohl

We still have a lot to talk about," I said. "Talk?" He shook his head, his eyes full of desire. Kiss, he whispered to my thoughts. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done. — Billy Corgan

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others - or, in a word, partnership. — Paul Farmer

At the age of twenty-two, suspecting their time was limited, Ichimei and she had gorged on love to enjoy it to the full, but the more they tried to exhaust it, the wilder their desire became, and whoever says that every flame must sooner or later be extinguished is wrong, because there are passions that blaze on until destiny destroys them with a swipe of its paw, and even then hot embers remain that need only a breath of oxygen to be rekindled. — Isabel Allende