Colomba Cake Quotes & Sayings

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added). — Friedrich Nietzsche

Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. — Gloria Steinem

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing. — Jim Crace

Marketa pressed her hand against her stinging cheek. She was too stunned to cry, for her mother had never struck her before. She looked at her twin sisters, whose faces blanched, and they clutched each other in fear. — Linda Lafferty

Lost are only those who abandon themselves. — Hans-Ulrich Rudel

But there was a monster lurking in the deepest, blackest corners of his soul. An angry, slathering, vengeful beast, who had a mouth full of butcher knives and a tongue that dripped acid. A monster who ached for freedom. A monster that longed to flay the very soul from his victims, that monster was called the Darkrider. — Michael B. Patterson

I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them. — Joan Bauer