Elysiansas Quotes & Sayings

Lammer stared at the chunk of bread in his hands, trembling violently. "I'll follow you, my lady," he declared in a quavering voice. "I've eaten my shoes and lived on boiled grass and tree roots." His fists closed about the chunk of bread as if he were afraid someone might take it away from him. "I'll follow you to the end of the world and back for this." And he began to eat, tearing at the bread with his teeth. — David Eddings

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention? — Joseph Conrad

Like how could you do nothing,
and say, 'I'm doing my best.'
How could you take almost everything,
and then come back for the rest?
How could you beg me to stay,
reach out your hands and plead,
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as I agreed? — Ani DiFranco

She wants him to become enchanted, to enter so deeply into her distress that his view of the world is changed and the insult of easy answers is no longer possible. Enchantment always causes complications. He is wise to resist, as she is equally wise to press for a true connection and nothing less. — Christine Wicker

God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing. - C. S. Lewis — Randy Alcorn

I was deeply depressed. I felt my brain slipping out of its casing and down my neck, like an egg sliding on a frying pan. So — Jonathan Ames

The West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government. — Ilana Mercer

Music has as many roles as people make it. — Ani DiFranco