Elestirel Saglik Okuryazarligi Quotes & Sayings

He'd pushed and pushed and pushed until she had nowhere else to go but away from him. He'd been young back then himself. Inexperienced. Stupid. A little patience accomplished a lot more. Hard lesson to learn. Worst way to learn it. — Erin Kellison

To be a Christian means you do not have to marry or have a child. The church is constituted by a people who grow through witness and conversion, not through biological ascription. A church in which the single rather than the married bear the burden of proof is one that inexorably legitimates violence in the name of protecting "our" children from those who think they need to kill to protect "their" children. The problem is not children, but the possessive pronouns — Stanley Hauerwas

Two avenues of approach to these rewards lie open to the ambitious fictioneer. On the one hand, he may throw all intelligible standards of merit to the winds, and devote himself to manufacturing new stories that are frankly bad, trusting to the fact that nine persons out of ten are utterly devoid of esthetic sense and hence unable to tell the bad from the good. And on the other hand, he may take stories, or parts of stories that have been told before, or that, in themselves, are scarcely worth the telling, and so encrust them with the ornaments of wit, of shrewd observation, of human sympathy and of style
in brief, so develop them
that readers of good taste will forget the unsoundness of the material in admiration of the ingenious and workmanlike way in which it is handled. — H.L. Mencken

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone. — Susan Isaacs

The wretched of the Earth, he calls us. People too poor to afford cable and too stupid to know that they aren't missing anything. — Paul Beatty

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. — Victor Hugo

And the people love a well-mannered killer. — Michael R. Fletcher

Night simply drapes itself over the day
As if someone had lowered a curtain.
The sky glitters and moves,
Filled with shooting stars and fireflies. — Margarita Engle

And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion ... You must not lay a stumbling-block in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust ... You must walk among sinful persons as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you did not foresee, when it is too late to quench it. — Richard Baxter

He rolled his eyes. "You just like me for my body. Admit it." "Well, yeah ... " His lashes lifted and his eyes glittered like jewels. "I feel like man-candy — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Things weren't permanent, things could always fall apart, never get too comfortable, and even those you trust, those you trust as authority figures and role models, are liable to show themselves as illusions. — Michael Hastings

He was kissing me like we were both on fire and he was trying to put the flames out, and I kissed him back like an arsonist with a pocketful of matches. — Jenn Bennett

He could hear its heavy body slithering heavily across the dusty floor. — Anonymous

It's your choice now," he whispered in my ear, making the hairs at the back of my neck stand on end. "I will bed you. That is not the choice, but whether or not you wish to experience my touch or to be oblivious. It's in my power to grant you either. — Cristina Rayne