Danoff Shaffer Quotes & Sayings

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better. — Nicholas Sparks

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. — Martin H. Fischer

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning. — Mason Cooley

In my dream, all of the collapsed ceilings reformed above us. The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster. — Jonathan Safran Foer

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it. — Thomas Steinbeck

Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, Where do the clothes and accessories come from? — Loyd Auerbach

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy. — Louise Doughty