Baykal Press Quotes & Sayings

Viola? he says.
And I turn to look at him -
And when I do, I can hear everything he's thinking.
Everything.
Clearer than before, clearer than seems possible -
And I'm not even sure I'm supposed to, but I look him in the eyes and I see it -
In the middle of everything he's feeling -
Even after we fought -
Even after I doubted him -
Even after I hurt him -
I see how much he loves me. — Patrick Ness

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection. — Stephen Dobyns

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. — Neil Strauss

I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers. — Carrie-Anne Moss

Let Valten go save his own damsel in distress. I'm sure there are other maidens he can fall in love with. — Melanie Dickerson

..and only by assimilating into their community would they succeed. — Lindsay Pollock

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. — Mason Cooley

On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of ... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach. — A.E. Housman

I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like. — Genesis Rodriguez

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner. — Ramana Maharshi

It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't. — Jack Tatum

A Dom intent on developing a relationship will approach you on a personal level first. — Red Phoenix

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators. — G.K. Chesterton

As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease. — Abraham Verghese