Commoners Communion Quotes & Sayings

But I couldn't ... I couldn't stop being around you, and loving you, and wanting you. I still can't stay away. — Sarah J. Maas

What did you mean by that?"
She looked up.
"What?"
"'Well, too bad for you.' That's what you said. What did you mean by that?"
...
Her own apology was sincere; the work she has to do on herself is her own.
When something wasn't going well, when there was conflict or someone was upset or being difficult, the more introverted me would flee and hope it all went away. The new me wades right into the deep end and asks, "what's wrong? — Shonda Rhimes

Somehow the present had shrunk into a smaller and much less interesting place. — Donna Tartt

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water. — John Dryden

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that. — Hillary Clinton

One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high. — Heinrich Muller

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave. — Nora Roberts

And above it all the butterfly effect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings ... — Dan Simmons

Americans, unknowingly, live part of every day in the house that Satch built. — Leonard Feather

The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand. — Gloria Gaither

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. — Esther Dyson

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency. — Machado De Assis