Brks Morningstar Quotes & Sayings

Lena is sure that other people don't have many selves. She is terrified that she doesn't have a core self, an essential Lena. She feels that she used to but that she lost it along the way, that at some point it became buried, suffocated, and died, because when she looks beneath the chattering of the selves, nothing is there. Maybe the fractured feeling is taking hold because something is dead inside her, or missing. — Haley Tanner

Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug. — Stephen King

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom. — Alexander Von Humboldt

While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve. — Shinzo Abe

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank. — Chellie Pingree

Molly and Teacher eyed each other in the manner of two young women who will never, ever, be great friends. — Dave Barry

Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things. — Geri Halliwell

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. — Bill Gates

The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not lived in truth,' Berg writes, 'is a life forfeited.' In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost. — Leah Hager Cohen

Don't they get afraid, then?"
"They have a religion for that. — Ray Bradbury

There is no greater privilege for anyone than being able to personally talk with and speak into the ears of Almighty God. — Stephen Kendrick

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt? — Henry David Thoreau

Mum, at Sam's funeral, I didn't cry ... is that
is that normal?"
"Lauren, write in your journal and you'll feel better. — Amelia Mysko

Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived at carefully and through reason, but really no more than marauding appetites cunningly tricked out as reasonable choices? — Paul Russell

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that. — Michael Gungor