Compagnons Batisseurs Quotes & Sayings

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus. — Robert Herjavec

You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away. — George Vecsey

The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else. — Philip Pullman

Autumn comes
like a buyer of cloth,
her long fingers
touching,
turning orange,
yellow, brown.

taking what she wants,
stretching
the bone taut air.

Her skin crackles beneath
our feet.

I didn't think anyone wanted me,

bruises pulled
like a sweater around
my neck.

We talk
in the pore tightening air,
branches bare,
about the girl buried in the chill
of prewinter.

We show each other
our mutilated children
in the guise of women
as autumn plucks
at our lips.

Each color,
blue, black, ochre
popping like kisses
on the rib lined flesh,
the puberty soft things.

And we muse
how women
keep bruises
hidden
beneath dead
leaves. — Janice Mirikitani

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably seized up. — Anonymous

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal. — Guillermo Del Toro