Betouni Quotes & Sayings

She'd set herself up to fail. On purpose. In the most basic way a woman can. I shaved my bikini line and wore my best underwear. — Amanda Usen

He slides off into half-sleep and dreams of Oryx, floating on her back in a swimming pool, wearing an outfit that appears to be made of delicate white tissue-paper petals. They spread out around her, expanding and contracting like the valves of a jellyfish. The pool is painted a vibrant pink. She smiles up at him and moves her arms gently to keep afloat, and he knows they are both in great danger. — Margaret Atwood

And showed him to be a villa-dwelling dependent and not an ascetic cave-dwelling guerrilla. — Christopher Hitchens

Who has never killed an hour? ... — Mark Z. Danielewski

Conversation is an evanescent relation,
no more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else. — Nick Antosca

We were kids without fathers ... so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves. - Jay-Z — Austin Kleon

Most important, he realized that, no matter what happened, he retained the freedom to choose how to respond to his suffering. — Viktor E. Frankl

As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe.
She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts of light between the trees and onto the alleyway, and a myriad insects webbed their way in the beams, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. But were they insects, wondered Deborah, or particles of dust, or even split fragments of light itself, beaten out and scattered by the sun?
It was very quiet. The woods were made for secrecy. They did not recognise her as the garden did. ("The Pool") — Daphne Du Maurier

None could be the most perfect.
If indeed any, it is only perfect. — Toba Beta

They were easy to distinguish from one another, these two groups. The voters wore frowns and invariably seemed lost. The lobbyists were the ones with the Cheshire Cat grins who navigated the halls more confidently than even the newly elected. — Hugh Howey

HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Pooh — A.A. Milne