Beautiful Malice Book Quotes & Sayings

What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams — Gary Snyder

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it. — Wilkie Collins

Evil people must spread their evil everywhere. — Jane Smiley

I felt alone, but not especially lonely. I guess I just took that for granted. — Haruki Murakami

The grown-ups, or maybe I should say the parents, ate in the dining room. — Ann Darby

The world progresses only through misunderstanding. — Charles Baudelaire

The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful — Lee Bice-Matheson

He squinted and said, "Hmmm," which translated from "male" means, "I don't actually agree with that idea, but I don't have a comeback line to common sense. — Suzanne Kelman

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered. — Shannon L. Alder

Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke. — Robin Williams

Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit. — Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

You see, my mind takes me far,
but my heart dreams of return. — Henri Cole