Baticueva Quotes & Sayings

The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious. — Daniel Abraham

I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals. — Nick Antosca

Light is more attractive than darkness; that is why we are drawn to stars. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind ... — Gabrielle Zevin

In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction. — Charlie Pierce

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish. — Orson Scott Card

It's like when I first saw you at the Diabetic. I went up to you, but really you made the first move."
"Shut up!" She remains unconvinced. "How?"
I don't answer. I sit still. Then I look at her slyly out of the corner of my eye, before looking away. I look at her again, for longer this time, then drop my eyes. For my final look I stare, and bat my eyelashes provocatively.
I must do a good job because Nia laughs. It feels goo to know I can do that.
"You look like such a dufus in those glasses! It's not sexy at all!" She puts her hand to her reddening face. "Oh. Did I really do that?"
"It worked, didn't it? — Leanne Hall

Christ is a "tried stone." Those who trust in Him, He never disappoints. — Ellen G. White

I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that I don't think of them as work in the usual sense of the word. — Joyce Carol Oates

[ ... ] how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves? — Michel Faber

But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. — Thomas Paine

It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little. — Mark Victor Hansen

The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God. — George Steiner

There is a solution to any problem; you have to solve the puzzle. — Lailah Gifty Akita