Derika Quotes & Sayings

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse. — David Levithan

It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend. — Luis Marques

What will always be better than a man, is a
Gentleman. — Pontius Joseph

She was dark-haired, fierce; she wore two drop earrings made of crystal; her face was a pure oval tickled with dimples; her skin was golden; and her laugh was like a fire in the night. But on her face you could also read the concentration of a soul whose life is entirely inward, and a mischievous gravity which acquires a silver patina with age. — Muriel Barbery

How could someone make decision after decision attempting to get away from their past and somehow end up right back where they were started? — Nicole Jacquelyn

My mother was a dark red head wrap. Her life had been heavier than the fire she carried on her back. This is the meaning of the past, Boy. There were maps & scriptures carved into my palms, whole towns — Terrance Hayes

Although he had changed his name, his history came with him, even to his writing. The rhythm of his rain-soaked childhood became a sequence of words. His memories of the understory of the great forest burst into lyrical phrases, as resinous as the sap of a pinecone, as crisp as the shell of a beetle. Sentences grew long, then pulled up short, taking on the tempo of the waves upon the shore, or swayed gently, like the plaintive song of a lone harmonica. His fury became essays that pointed, stabbed, and burned. His convictions played out with the monotonous determination of a printing press. And his affections became poems, as warm and supple as the wool of a well-loved sheep. — Pam Munoz Ryan

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind. — John Milton

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. — Winston Churchill

And yet never had she felt herself more totally committed to a will which was not her own, more totally a slave, and more content to be so. When — Pauline Reage

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is. — Leo Tolstoy