Desarmaduria Quotes & Sayings

I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life. — Nicole Krauss

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food. — Simone Weil

He had always been too English; by which he supposed he meant that he was ordinary. — Rachel Joyce

(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is, I tell myself, someone in the city nearby whose one contact today with unreconstructed nature will be to step into a diminutive pile of poodle excrement — Russell Chatham

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth. — Chaim Potok

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero. — Alan Page

At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If Children are God's Gift then adopted are God's child. — Revathi Sankaran

We're running out of rich people in this country. — Michele Bachmann

What are you doing?"
"Kneeling before a goddess."
"I'm not a goddess."
"You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it. — Colleen Houck

or at least I hope, that we won't hurt each other on purpose. — Melissa Collins

You don't know what's on the inside until you put a demand on your potential. — Joel Osteen