Blackburne Shilling Quotes & Sayings

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort. — Mandy Hale

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. — Bryant H. McGill

Fairy tale doesn't always have a happy ending. But still, it's a fairy tale.
So does first love. It might not be happy, but it doesn't have always to be sad. It's just love. — Dian Purnomo

But any book that is any good must be, to some extent, autobiographical, because one cannot and should not fabricate emotions; and although style and narrative are crucial, the bulwark, emotion, is what finally matters. With luck, talent, and studiousness, one manages to make a little pearl, or egg, or something ... — Edna O'Brien

This is pretty obvious, but until things happen, they haven't happened. And often things aren't what they seem. — Haruki Murakami

Unfortunately, their approach was based on the traditional dating paradigm, which I had previously abandoned on the basis that the probability of success did not justify the effort and negative experiences. — Graeme Simsion

But in the moonlight they were
little more than silhouettes. A reflection of her life. A
mere shadow of what she'd expected it to be. — Lorraine Heath

Is the diameter of your index finger equal to or greater than the diameter of a super absorbency tampon? — Julie Cross

Then it was something more. I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something - most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning - and — F Scott Fitzgerald

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. — P.G. Wodehouse

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. — James Allen