Ciepiela Quotes & Sayings

Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared. — Becca Fitzpatrick

The truth is that there is almost nothing as tiresome as unwanted love. — Sheila Kohler

No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit silent and be tormented. — Anthony Trollope

She quotes three current studies into the subject of self-esteem, all of which reach this conclusion and she states that 'people with high self-esteem pose a greater threat to those around them than people with low self-esteem and feeling bad about yourself is not the source of our country's biggest, most expensive social problems.'1 — Timothy J. Keller

After a while, he understood that he was experiencing a great liberation; the liberation from his self-imposed limitation, from a slowness and heaviness expressed in his name and had been expressed in the slow measured steps of his father walking ponderously from one room of the museum to another; liberation from an image of himself in which, even when he wasn't reading, he was someone bending myopically over dusty books; an image he hadn't drawn systematically, but that had grown slowly and imperceptibly; the image of Mundus, which bore not only his own handwriting, but also the handwriting of many others who had found it pleasant and convenient to be able to hold on to this silent museum-like figure and rest in it. — Pascal Mercier

I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak. — John Steinbeck

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work - not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail. — Ruth Rendell