Boringly Familiar Quotes & Sayings

You," he says to me, his hands gripping me tighter now, "are one of the bravest, strongest people I've ever met. You have the best heart, the best intentions - " He stops. Takes a tight, shaky breath. "You're the best person I've ever known," he says to me. "You've been through the worst possible experiences and you survived with your humanity still intact. How the hell," he says, his voice breaking now, "am I supposed to let go of you? How can I walk away from you? — Tahereh Mafi

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing. — David Nail

In a good society, people are interested in the hard lives of the workers, not in the easy lives of the artists and models! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

God gives God. That is the gift God always ultimately gives. Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God. God gives God, and we only need to slow long enough to unwrap the greatest Gift with our time: time in His Word, time in His presence, time at His feet. — Ann Voskamp

Now he was hungry, tired, and covered in boar's blood. He hated hunting his own food! — Shelly Laurenston

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. — Jim Carrey

You can't focus on death, or failure. Otherwise you're surrendering greatness to all the people too dumb to contemplate it. — David Wong

Because I want to go to the dance," I said.
"But why can't you go as a boy? Won't it be risky going as a girl?"
Of course it would be risky. But everything I'd done for the past four months had been risky.
I took a deep breath before speaking. "I want to go as a girl, because I want to dance with a particular boy."
Mrs. Smithers rolled her eyes at this. "There's always a boy, isn't there? — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last. — Khaled Hosseini