Contessa 26 Quotes & Sayings

And you know what you once told me, about how people's eyes have something honest about them when they're watching a fire. — Haruki Murakami

When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic. — Paul Auster

It's been me all along," said September slowly. "Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtn't just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. I've got to see it through, don't you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because she's missing the part of her that's me. We've got to come together again. And he can't do a thing about that. — Catherynne M Valente

Life is messy
especially now
it will help if you accept the mess and let it be. — Kristin Hannah

Our relationship with Jesus is based on grace- on the unexpected, undeserved, counterintuitive love of God. — Justin Buzzard

I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, My treason engendered by traitors beyound me, My life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me. — Louis MacNeice

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society. — Charles Hamilton Houston

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. — Charles Lamb

Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book. — Kate Christensen

Do you have any toy train schedules? — Steven Wright

We're organisms; we're conceived, we're born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living: plants and bugs and bacteria. — William M. Bass

Seize every opportunity and make it great. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming. — Alice Munro

Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being. — Alberto Manguel

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again. — Ben Bernanke