Brouter Quotes & Sayings

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America ... War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive. — Ulysses S. Grant

I tried to convince the kids at the bus stop to climb up with me, even a little ways, but all of them said they didn't want to get dirty. Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt? I couldn't believe it. — Wendelin Van Draanen

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

At his apartment she peed with the bathroom door open. It sounded like a visiting horse was relieving itself. — Jojo Moyes

Everyone treats you extra nice when they think you're about to die. — Sarah Noffke

Mia knew the weight that said nothing will ever be different from what it is now, that the world has lost all dimension and has turned to stone. — Sue Saliba

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise. — Walter De La Mare