Durovan Quotes & Sayings

The thing to remeber is that more than anything in this world, these colored people wish they were white. — David Sedaris

Marriage [is] not just a bond between two people but a bond between those two people and their forebears, their children, and their neighbors ... Lovers must not ... live for themselves alone ... They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and on its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers ... are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could ever join them. Lovers, then, 'die' into their union with one another as a soul 'dies' into its union with God ... If the community cannot protect this giving, it can protect nothing ... It is the fundamental connection without which nothing holds, and trust is its necessity. — Wendell Berry

We will never forgive and we will never forget. — Frank Herbert

Happiness
a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness
surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life? — Fumiko Enchi

You have to be careful around miracles, around extraordinary highs, because they're disruptive to your regular life...you have to cope when they end. — Anya Ulinich

I am the best dancer ever. I am a superstar. The shoes are magic. My feet are magic. I am magic. — Jennifer Niven