Bucklew Basement Quotes & Sayings

Ah, Lord God be merciful to us all! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Jerk, v.
"This has to stop," I say. "You have to stop hurting me. I can't take it. I really can't take it."
"I know you can't take it," you say. "But is that really my fault?"
I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.
"It is your fault," I tell you. But you have already left the room. — David Levithan

It felt like some kind of honor, you know? Being asked to be the head of the Council's son-in-law. Plus, you dad, he, uh, told me a lot about you."
My voice was barely above a whisper. "What did he say?"
"That you were smart, and strong. Funny. That you had trouble using your powers, but you were always trying to use them to help people." He shrugged. "I thought we'd be a good match."
The vast dining room suddenly felt very small, like it consisted only of this table and me and Cal. — Rachel Hawkins

Come now. let us reason together. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. — Andrew Ross

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal. — Steven Spielberg

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ? — Rumi

I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own. — Mary C. Neal