Eburin Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

We did photograph albums, best dresses, favourite novels, and once someone's own novel. It was about a week in a telephone box with a pair of pyjamas called Adolf Hitler. The heroine was a piece of string with a knot in it. — Jeanette Winterson

She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her.
It had unfurled.
If her heart were truly a scroll, she could burn it.
It would become a tunnel of flame, a handful of ash.
The secrets she had written inside herself would be gone. No one would know — Marie Rutkoski

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking. — Leslie Nielsen

New love can heal lost loves, but it cannot make you forget. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected. — Lynn Nottage

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem? To have your very body and the bodies of your children to be assume to be criminal, violent, malignant. — W.E.B. Du Bois

My goal is to never stop growing. — Monica Wright

Haven't you had enough past to let the future go? — Lucy Eyre

While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake. — Frederick Lenz

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' — Ray Bradbury

There is no better mirror in which to see your need than simply the Ten Commandments, in which you will find what you lack and what you should seek. If, therefore, you find in yourself a weak faith, small hope and little love toward God; and that you do not praise and honor God, but love your own honor and fame, think much of the favor of men, do not gladly hear mass and sermon, are indolent in prayer, in which things every one has faults, then you shall think more of these faults than of all bodily harm to goods, honor and life, and believe that they are worse than death and all mortal sickness. These you shall earnestly before God, lament and ask for help, and with all confidence expect help, and believe that you are heard and shall obtain help and mercy. — Martin Luther