Cosqun Rafael Quotes & Sayings

And she knew for the first time that someone can wire your skin in a single evening, and that love arrives not by accumulating to a moment, like a drop of water focused on the tip of a branch - it is not the moment of bringing your whole life to another - but rather, it is everything you leave behind. At that moment.
Even that night, the night he touched one inch of her in the dark, how simply Avery seemed to accept the facts - that they were on the edge of lifelong happiness and, therefore, inescapable sorrow. It was as if, long ago, a part of him had broken off inside, and now finally, he recognised the dangerous fragment that had been floating in his system, causing him intermittent pain over the years. As if he could now say of that ache: Ah. It was you. — Anne Michaels

If we must go down in flames, let us burn bright — W.G.S.

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever. — Phil Cooke

Arc de Triomphe, or Arch of Triumph," said — Sara Buckey

Tony," DeMarco said, and Benedetto slowly opened his eyes. — Mike Lawson

I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy. — Chris Bohjalian

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid! — Jemima Kirke

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page. — Li-Young Lee

Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what his commentators think he means? — W. Somerset Maugham

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius. — George Stillman Hillard

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind. — Taylor Swift

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. — Mark Twain

Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me, a sin that's left me with very little time to consider other extremely popular moral misdemeanors, like usury, intolerance, bearing false tales, extortion, racial bigotry, and the casting of that first stone. — Sally Stanford

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. — Bill Gates