Casuarina Cousin Quotes & Sayings

though the melody kept putting its hooks into me and dragging me with it mentally so that I was dancing in my head against my will. And — Anne Rice

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't. — Johnny Knoxville

I don't know if anybody thinks of themselves as bad. We all have excuses. — Carol Plum-Ucci

A good Master can be standing in a crowd or standing on a bright sunny beach. It shouldn't matter. When he speaks, it is everything he stands for and represents that induces the woman to obey him. All the fancy props, all of the intimidating atmosphere in the world can't make a good Master, and nor can it compel a woman to obedience. The man is all that matters. — Jason Luke

And in my heart I despised the life I led in Seattle. I was sick of it and had no idea how to change it. I thought that in Chinook, away from Taylor and Silver, away from Marian, away from people who had already made up their minds about me, I could be different. I could introduce myself as a scholar-athlete, a boy of dignity and consequence, and without any reason to doubt me people would believe I was that boy, and thus allow me to be that boy. I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all. — Tobias Wolff

Everything happens for a reason, it's up to you to
determine the reason it happened.
- Nate Spears — Nate Spears

These women are talented and gifted, fearless yet honoring, connected yet self-contained, present yet far reaching, compassionate yet fierce, pure but not naive, strong and gentle, simple yet highly strategic. — Lisa Bevere

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. — George Saunders

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it. — Michael Richardson

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities. — Hiroko Sakai