Darkfever Series Quotes & Sayings

To those not yet old, being old means you've been. But being old also means that despite, in addition to, and in excess of your beenness, you still are. Your beenness is very much alive. You still are, and one is as haunted by the still-being and its fullness as by the having-already-been, by the pastness. Think of old age this way: it's just an everyday fact that one's life is at stake. — Philip Roth

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You have pissed your last in this house ... and I don't make velvet roses anymore. — Toni Morrison

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me. — Emily Dickinson

it's natural that we associate language with such verbal intercourse. Unfortunately, this association has led many to assume that language is an exclusive attribute of our species - we, after all, are the only creatures that use words - and to conclude that all other organisms are entirely bereft of meaningful speech. It is an exceedingly self-serving assumption. Other animals, commonly possessed of senses far more acute than ours, may have much less need for a purely conventional set of signs to communicate with others of their species, or even to glean precise information from members of other species. — David Abram

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person. — Ann Brashares

I've been watching Mad Men since day one. — Gayle King

Leaving the path to follow the heart, to help someone, is anything... but reckless. — Adam Scythe

It's our job as actors to make it look like it's not manufactured. If you have two actors who understand their characters - and therefore what they are trying to portray - then all they need to do is be the characters and there's a chemistry there. — Henry Cavill

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him. — Aeschylus

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've been trying to redefine fragrance since I was a child - before I was ten. Throughout my life, certain fragrance notes have captured my imagination - especially liquorice, violet and anise, flooding back into my consciousness. — Lolita Lempicka