Dillards Department Quotes & Sayings

The pain feels like a hole swallowing her up, a source of intense fear and yet, at the same time, a strange, quiet peace. — Han Kang

Being a vet doesn't mean I know how to fix you in this shape." She gestured to his body. "I'll admit there's only one long and hard shape I really want you to fix, but if that's going to happen, then first, you need to pull this piece of metal out of me. It smarts. — Eve Langlais

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me. — Stephen Greenblatt

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.'
'Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race. — Wallace Stegner

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death. — Johann Baptist Metz

Today, as I look back on those years, I realized there is nothing to understand, that everything is clear to everyone all along. — Eric Gamalinda

You've actually just reminded me. I brought you something." She had finally assembled the first two issues of the Dr. Eleven comics, and had had a few copies printed at her own expense. She extracted two copies each of Dr. Eleven, Vol. 1, No. 1: Station Eleven and Dr. Eleven, Vol. 1, No. 2: The Pursuit from her handbag, and passed them across the table. — Emily St. John Mandel

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become. — Alyson Noel

I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch. — Preet Bharara

His pasty, white wang. Gross. — Penny Reid

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. — Robert Jordan

So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him ... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow ... Save details for the judge. — Betty Sue Flowers

If there were no
cherry blossoms
in this world
How much more tranquil
our hearts would be in spring. — Ariwara No Narihira

Vagina Warriors are done being victims. They know no one is coming to rescue them. They would not want to be rescued. They have experienced their rage, depression, desire for revenge, and they have transformed them through grieving and service. They have confronted the depth of their darkness. They live in their bodies. They are community makers. They bring everyone in. They have a keen ability to live with ambiguity. They can hold two opposite thoughts at the same time. — Eve Ensler

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice. — Thomas Aquinas