Burketts Quotes & Sayings

I didn't get to grow up and pull away from her and bitch about her with my friends and confront her about the things I'd wished she'd done differently and then get older and understand that she had done the best she could and realize that what she had done was pretty damn good and take her fully back into my arms again. Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very heigh of my youthful arrogance. It had forced me to instantly grow up and forgive her every motherly fault at the same time that it kept me forever a child, my life both ended and begun in that premature place where we'd left off. She was my mother, but I was motherless. I was trapped by her, but utterly alone. She would always be the empty bowl that no one could full. I'd have to fill it myself again and again and again. — Cheryl Strayed

It was September.
In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason. — Ray Bradbury

Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated. — Abdu'l- Baha

And what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy — E. E. Cummings

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially. — Mary Gaitskill

I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient dusty people parked in teh hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death. Particularly when I rememver that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless tchotchke. — Sara Gruen

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood. — Martin Luther

Because make no mistake, Serena. I do bite.


~Wraith — Larissa Ione

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change — Tariq Ramadan

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death. — Simone De Beauvoir

Many writers are recognized for their PHD mentality
Poor, Hungry and Driven. — Trish Jackson