Crystalled Quotes & Sayings

You hate yourself so much, you'll hurt anybody who loves you. That's it, isn't it? Just to get even with them for loving you. — Lev Grossman

As I have learned over the years, your friends don't change; you just learn to ignore or embrace the bad bits. — Carrie Adams

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. — Tom Hanks

There was no point in taking issue with Marilla's overweening self-regard. It was as infinite as a starry night. — Eloisa James

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing — Brian Eno

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer — Naguib Mahfouz

NEW HAIKU
One breathy vowel
mists the glass warming window
panes crystalled with snow
Robin Glasser — Robin Glasser

Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not 'unintentional' when you know it is inevitable. — Ilana Mercer

The prohibition on promoting a pawn to a queen while the original queen was still on the board was an attempt to preserve the uniqueness of the king's wife, his only permissible conjugal mate according to Christian doctrine. The Arabic game did not have to face that problem because a Muslim ruler could theoretically have as many viziers as he wanted. The idea of multiple queens on the chessboard proved so anxiety-making for Europeans that it remained a subject of contention for centuries to come. — Marilyn Yalom

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material. — Duncan Roy