Cipollina Akron Quotes & Sayings

As I grew older, I began to understand the differences between all of the other girls in school and myself. They had families, and I did not. They sat at home at night at a dinner table and ate with their brothers, sisters, and both of their parents. I sat at home and ate Ravioli's from a can as my mother sat in her chair and watched television in what I assumed was terrible pain. — Scott Hildreth

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor. — Honore De Balzac

She jumps on me for sharing pain with the living, but she tries to share it with the dead. — Octavia E. Butler

We should cultivate the serenity, because in the substance of sincerity germinate the most beautiful flowers of the Spirit. — Samael Aun Weor

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu. — William Stafford

True humility is contentment. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Sometimes people choose one person in a crowd to pick at. It makes them feel better to say how there's one entirely rotten person they can blame everything on. — Jane Hamilton

I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving." She Paused. "Our adoration never diminished the Throne, but your love diminished me. I never meant to hurt you. I only meant to stop you from hurting me. — Lauren Kate

News of the miracle had reached the doge's palace, but in a somewhat garbled form. the result of the successive transmissions of facts, true or assumed, real or purely imaginary, based on everything from partial, more or less eyewitness accounts to reports from those who simply liked the sound of their own voice, for, as we know all too well, no one telling a story can resist adding a period, and sometimes even a comma. — Jose Saramago

Philosophy is surgery; surgery is philosophy. — David Cronenberg

I've stabbed two people with a fork today. What's wrong with me? — Patrick Carman