Cerithideopsis Quotes & Sayings

Even though people are shallow and lots of people prefer scripted fictional heroes to real human beings, they can still be shaken out of it in the presence of someone who is REAL. Your problem is not that you haven't mastered the conversational skills necessary to maintain someone's interest. Your problem is that you've never forced yourself to define exactly who you are and what you love and how you want to live. You've never had to talk about these things passionately. You've never dared to lay yourself bare, without apology. Once you can look someone in the eyes and say, "Here's what really matters to me"? That's what people find attractive, trust me. They want to be with someone who knows himself and gives a shit. That's what's alluring and attractive and irreplaceable, even in this age of smooth make-believe. — Heather Havrilesky

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster

We stared at each other across a narrow space that was full of danger, that almost seemed to roar, like flame.

'Come,' he said. — James Baldwin

Better could the stem of a rose support a marble bust than the mind of man bear the false infinity of his own deification. — Fulton J. Sheen

They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid. — Jeanette Winterson

I say we must learn from our past so that we do not make the same mistakes in our future.
Search of the Lost — Thomas R. Gaskin