Beatrijs Verhaal Quotes & Sayings

Also, isolation leads to chronically lowered levels of the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin. It is one of the bizarre ironies of major depression that being depressed causes people to withdraw from the most powerful antidepressant known - rich and varied social contact. However therein lies a rich lesson also - in some cases one of the quickest and most effective ways to reverse depression is to socialize. — James Lee

You are a fucking naughty girl," I told her.
"Or just a naughty girl you're fucking," she said and picked up one of the shots.
You're so much more than that, I thought. But I picked up the shot and raised it at her. "Bottoms up for now. You're bottom's up later when I smack the shit out of it. — Karina Halle

Metaphorically speaking, I always make room for any evidence of scurvy in my characters, any mitigating ailments. — Mary Karr

She needs a proper supervillain name. Man Hands isn't doing it for me."

"You're right. How about 'Evil Wench from the Darkest Reaches of Mordor'? — S.J. Kincaid

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished. — Anna Seward

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers. — Laurell K. Hamilton

This immoral system, how do you get outside it? Option one, you drop out, sever the connections. They got that far in '68, okay? People went as far with that as they could, to say, I'm free, you're free, kumbaya and barbaric yawp and yadda yadda, and look what happened. The problem with the whole Rousseau trip is that man is primordially a social animal, in the sense of clan or tribe. Marx says this somewhere. You detach completely, you not only find yourself way out on a limb, against your nature, but you've lost any power for group resistance. And eventually, you come crawling back, clutching credit-card applications, begging to be let in. — Garth Risk Hallberg

This is the man who hopes to be King of England. He has to marry a princess. He's not going to marry some beggarly widow from the camp of his enemy, who stood out on the road to plead with him to restore her dowry. If he marries an Englishwoman at all, she will be one of the great ladies of the Lancaster court, probably Warwick's daughter Isabel. He's not going to marry a girl whose own father fought against him. He's more likely to marry a great princess of Europe, an infanta from Spain, or a princesse from France. He has to marry to set himself more safely on the throne, to make alliances. He's not going to marry a pretty face for love. Lord Warwick would never allow it. And he is not such a fool as to go against his own interests. — Philippa Gregory

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. — Alistair Cooke

In infancy, our blood is strong and our energy is plentiful. Mind and body, thought and action are one. Everything we do is in harmony with the natural order. The infant is not affected by things that happen around him. Virtue and ethics cannot restrain his will. Naked and free of social conventions, he follows the natural path of the heart. — Liezi

When it's asshole-tightening time, that's when you see what people are made of. Or at least what their asshole is made of. — Justin Halpern

Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear. — Rumi