El Cabo Del Miedo Quotes & Sayings

You are her mother.
Why did you not warn her,
hold her like a rotting boat
and tell her that men will not love her
if she is covered in continents,
if her teeth are small colonies,
if her stomach is an island
if her thighs are borders?

What man wants to lie down
and watch the world burn
in his bedroom?

Your daughter 's face is a small riot,
her hands are a civil war,
a refugee camp behind each ear,
a body littered with ugly things.

But God,
doesn't she wear
the world well? — Warsan Shire

Hic jacet Arthurus Rex quandam Rexque futurus - the once and future king. — T.H. White

On this night of the Harvest Moon. They tossed bones into the "Bone Fire" and asked the yellow moon to shine its protection over them. (Today we call it a "Bonfire") — Nancy B. Brewer

There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling. — Robert Caro

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau

There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that. — Laura Wilkinson

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams. — Martha Moody

If we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. — Johnnetta B. Cole