Carboneto Quotes & Sayings

He had given work to a nightwalker named Dorothy Evans and gradually became beguiled by her. She was a plump, pretty, cattleman's daughter, pale as a cameo, with the sort of overripe body that always seems four months pregnant. Her long brown hair was braided into figure eights and pinned up over her ears in the English country-girl style. Grim experience was in her eyes, many years of pouting shaped her lips, but everything else about her expression seemed to evince an appealing cupidity, as if she could accept anything as long as it was pleasing. — Ron Hansen

Now I'm reading an old article on San Giovanni a Carbonara, where it explains what the Carbonara or Carboneto was. I thought that there was coal there once, and coal miners. But no, it was the place for the — Elena Ferrante

Unicorns aren't magical and beautiful. They're just predatory horses that have horns and love to eat virgins. — Delilah S. Dawson

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The cold gods," she said. "The ones in the night. The white shadows. — George R R Martin

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty. — Jeannette Walls

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it. — Earl Nightingale

What are your drawn to?"
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"Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something. — Ellen Sussman

It was only after a long silence, when he said, in a hesitating voice, "I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit," that we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences. — Joseph Conrad

My life finds a new beginning in which I try and engulf my family...I am struggling to building it. Will it blow away again like dust?? — Anchal Duggal

My ethical values prevent me from investing in the stock market. — Steven Magee

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older. — Darren Aronofsky

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good — Emanuel Swedenborg

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence. — Dillon Burroughs

In the rock 'n roll slang world, they're called rock doctors, or rock docs. They would come out to shows and like to hang backstage. You could get a prescription for anything you want from them. They just want to hang out and party. It's crazy because you can get a prescription to anything. It doesn't even matter what kind of doctor they are. — Reginald Arvizu

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is. — Carlisle Floyd