Chokecherries Quotes & Sayings

I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist. — Jared Leto

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. — Laurell K. Hamilton

His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his cowardice. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And you hate me. "For something I didn't do and something you didn't see. Hate — Carlyle Toussaint

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. — Mark Strand

I would just say try it and see if you like it. See how it makes you feel and remember that it's not about being perfect, it's about just doing your best. I think it would have tremendous benefits for everyone. — Jayne Middlemiss

The chokecherries -- gregarious and chatty, perched on their branches calling out to everyone to strip them off. Wild plums -- sarcastic and timid at the same time -- called out from behind their leaves only to retreat into the brushy brambles where they lived. Raspberries and blackberries -- royal and corrupt princes -- braved it out in the full sun of forest clearings. Gooseberries and huckleberries -- reticent, tradition-bound and private -- lived on unbothered in the swamps. Cranberries and pincherries (those party-goers) draped themselves over the furniture of the branches and invited all passerby, birds and people, to join the party. The blueberries and wintergreen grew undisturbed -- calmly bourgeois -- in the carpeted hush of the big woods. — David Treuer

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie. — Nikita Dudani

Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay. — Seneca.

Did you love Paul Ivory?"
"Yes."
"I suppose it ended badly."
"Yes."
"You must have been very unhappy."
"I died, and Adam resurrected me. — Shirley Hazzard

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest. — John Stuart Mill