Brookens Center Quotes & Sayings

Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out. — William Cowper

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.' — Hilaire Belloc

Hey John, I have an early version of The Last Hurrah you left in a class we shared back in 1994. I'd gladly return it to you. — John-Patrick Scott

I am hidden in your heart, O Flower. — Rabindranath Tagore

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap. — Phillip W. Simpson

Stories never really end ... even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page. — Cornelia Funke

As he started making a pot of coffee he glanced out his kitchen window and into his neighbor's window and froze. He had the perfect view of his new neighbor. She was beautiful. Scratch that. The word didn't even come close to describing her.

She didn't seem very tall, though it was hard to measure. Her dark wavy hair cascaded down over her shoulders, reaching just below her breasts. Very full breasts. Definitely enough to fill his palms. And the tight tank top she was wearing left very little to the imagination. It was obvious she'd just woken up as she rubbed a hand over her face and reached for the coffee pot. Look away, he ordered himself.

But he was rooted to the spot. — Katie Reus

When he heard the sounds of his mother, a mother he had never known, crying like an animal in the damp grass, Joseph whispered to his father. "Row," he whispered, "row us away from here. — John Murray

We don't manage money for anyone else. We bear responsibility only for our own risks. — Suleyman Kerimov

You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps. — Sam Harris