Bildas Quotes & Sayings

A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year. — Caroline Leavitt

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The root of all of it: he's never lost. He still has both his parents, and any kind of loss he ever went through was his choice, which is always a different kind of loss than the kind that's ripped from you. — Vanessa Garcia

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful. — Theodore Zeldin

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too. — Marcella Hazan

R'hllor, come to us in our darkness, — George R R Martin

Do you think you're walking out on me, on your life, because you defended yourself against a monster?"
"I killed my father."
"You killed a fucking monster. You were a child. Are you going to stand there, look me in the face, and tell me that child was to blame?"
She opened her mouth, closed it. "It's not a matter of how I see it, Roarke. The law
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"The law should have protected you!" With visions dancing evilly in his head, he snapped. He could all but hear the tight wire of control break. "Goddamn the law. What good did it do either one of us when we needed it most? You want to chuck your badge because the law's too fucking weak to care for it's innocents, for it's children, be my guest. Throw your career away. But you're not getting rid of me. — J.D. Robb

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City. — Raul Castro

I'm usually up at 6 A.M., even on the weekend. — Nick Frost

but mostly his work just made him dislike houses. These enormous anchors that people tied to their lives. — Emily St. John Mandel

What you have to do as a writer is ... write day in and day out no matter what happens. — William Stafford

It was the job of people like me to make up reasons, to spin a plausible yarn. And it's amazing what people will believe. Heavy selling out of the Middle East was an old standby. Since no one ever had any clue what the Arabs were doing with their money or why, no story involving Arabs could ever be refuted. So if you didn't know why the dollar was falling, you shouted out something about Arabs. — Michael Lewis

But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works. — Anonymous

Yano. What is ... happiness to you?"
"Something like snow. — Yuuki Obata