Cautivadora Mujer Quotes & Sayings

Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured. — Andre Gide

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty. — Karen Thompson Walker

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy. — John Calvin

I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me. — Nicholas Thorburn

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. — John Burroughs

The majority of black women are unmarried today, including 70 percent of professional black women. — Michelle Alexander

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then? — Augusten Burroughs