Bonafoux Pascal Quotes & Sayings

Things fit only to give weight to smoke. — Aulus Persius Flaccus

I felt Leo's hand on my face, cool and smooth and utterly inhuman. He stroked back my hair, and his voice was curiously gentle when he said, "I would have been most . . . discommoded had you died."
"Yeah. That's why I stay alive," I said, my native snark coming back online, as if I had rebooted that file, "to keep you from being 'discommoded'." I'd have to look that one up. — Faith Hunter

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer. — Cristiano Ronaldo

The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts. — Jennifer Lopez

Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress. — Ariel Garten

I am not a cosmic orphan. — Elia Kazan

I only eat apple turnovers in places where I can remember being with my father. And every time I eat one I remember him. "So — Don Daglow

I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to the formidable task of illumination the human heart in conflict with itself-will do the opposite of expose you. It will connect you. With others. With the world around you. With yourself. — Dani Shapiro

Calais took all of a fraction of a second - I've yet to learn how to gauge his speed - to appear beside me, taking the alarm clock and shutting it down. Then he worked on my bonds, leaving my gag for last because he wanted to sneak in a kiss. Which he did. Too bad I was too annoyed and cramped to respond, so I just made like a limp doll that made a face at him while he got all Romeo on me. — Hayden Thorne

Let go of everything else, he urges in my mind. Just be here. With me. — Cynthia Hand