Captain Tousen Quotes & Sayings

There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years old. She said, Handful, your granny-mauma saw it for herself. She say they flew over trees and clouds. She say they flew like blackbirds. When we came here, we left that magic behind. — Sue Monk Kidd

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I kiss Allyson.
I complete the history that came before us, and in doing so, begin one all of our own.
Double happiness: I get it now. — Gayle Forman

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working. — Evan Williams

When she released him, James looked stunned. "Still?" She suppressed a swell of sadness. "Always. — S.M. Reine

Sky, I'm not kissing you tonight but believe me when I tell you, I've never wanted to kiss a girl more. So stop thinking I'm not attracted to you because you have no idea just how much I am. You can hold my hand, you can run your fingers through my hair, you can straddle me while I feed you spaghetti, but you are not getting kissed tonight. And probably not tomorrow, either. I need this. I need to know for sure that you're feeling every single thing that I'm feeling the moment my lips touch yours. Because I want your first kiss to be the best first kiss in the history of first kisses." He pulls my hand up to his mouth and kisses it. "Now stop sulking and help me finish the meatballs. — Colleen Hoover

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means.
But nobody is asking, How does it feel? — Mary Oliver

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children. — Alison Gopnik

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are. — Karin Slaughter

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. — Abraham Lincoln

What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all? — J.A. Redmerski