Centanni Cafe Quotes & Sayings

Laughter rose from the clatter of china and silver, and I felt so very close to Zora's circle but not quite in it. It wasn't Zora's fault, because she addressed me often and encouraged her cousins to speak to me - once or twice with kicks beneath the table.
But she couldn't know that the light on her circle paled to the light in mine. Even though I looked at the cousins, admiring their smiles and pretty laughter, I found myself drawn back to Nathaniel Witherspoon. And each time I caught him looking at me. At my mouth. — Saundra Mitchell

That was what the season was, after all- a marriage market for the offspring of the aristocracy. — Marissa Doyle

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man — Khalil Gibran

Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades. — Kevin Myers

And in fact that selfsame strange urge I had when I was small - the desire to grant a second chance to something that could never have one - is still one of the urges that set me going today whenever I sit down to write a story. — Amos Oz

In some very rare cases, an opposite-sex pair was born, and they always mated one another. Disturbing as it might sound, when it did happen, the offspring were invariably gifted. Sera and Trace's sons were noted psych-scientists. — Belinda McBride

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? (2 Cor. 2:15-16). — David Ruis

We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel if in their place. However dark the habitation of the mole to our eyes, yet the animal itself finds the apartment sufficiently lightsome. — Oliver Goldsmith

I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was no less fearful. — Stacie Evans

Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother. — Diane Samuels

The world class purposely ignores the small thinking, ego-based personality — Steve Siebold

Will it make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and I still have time to be — Anis Mojgani

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings. — H.G.Wells