Brett Sharp Quotes & Sayings

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. — Katherine Paterson

...push back the hood of grief... — Anthony Doerr

I still have a lot of growing to do
and I know there is more room for it
in your absence. — Trista Mateer

Ena," Brett said.
"Lady Ena, Ryker corrected from the doorway.
Brett smiled. He couldn't imagine her wanted to be called anything but Ena, but he would call her anything that pleased her.
The sharp look she gave her butler made Brett think calling her Lady Ena was out.
Ryker, being his usual unflappable self, just looked at her as if he was in charge and she would go by her new title or else. — Terry Spear

This was the affair which had ended quietly and decently, without fuss or scenes or hysteria. When you were nineteen, and it was the first time you had been let down, you did not make scenes. You felt as if your back was broken, as if you would never move again. But you did not make a scene. That started later on, when the same thing had happened five or six times over, and you were supposed to be getting used to it. — Jean Rhys

See, if you said green bean, I'd be very upset. However, if you told her an eggplant, I'd probably never wear pants again. So what's it going to be, Jess? — Aly Martinez

Be hostile unless you must, Moiraine had said, but above all never be overly friendly. Never be eager — Robert Jordan

First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin' out how you passed it. — Terry Pratchett

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work. — John Henrik Clarke

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind. — Philip Sidney

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll. — Joe Walsh

He paused, looking pained, and I took some consolation in the fact that he didn't seem to want to hurt me. "When I found I had feelings for someone else." At least that was easier to handle than my initial worry. "Carrie?" He shook his head. "Ean." I was driven to absolute silence. Ean? Like, Ean Ean? I — Kiera Cass

Go forward with joyful confidence. — George Eliot

Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand. — John Cleese

I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea of a loving and merciful deity is inconsistent with the fact of natural evil, said this meant his god was not all-powerful, and therefore was not to blame because it could not stop natural evil from occuring. This is a different tack from the more robust one that says natural evil is a response to humanity's moral evil. What this latter view in effect argues is that because of (say) Hitler's wrongdoings, thousands of babies deserve to be drowned in tsunamis. — A.C. Grayling

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought. — Naguib Mahfouz