Emma Peterson Quotes & Sayings

What I mean to say is probably something like this: any single human being, no matter what kind of person he or she may be, is all caught up in the tentacles of this animal like a giant octopus, and is getting sucked into the darkness. You can put any kind of spin on it you like, but you end up with the same unbearable spectacle. — Haruki Murakami

Tess retreated toward the back of the room. How could Imogen have done this to all of them? But she knew the answer as well as she knew the question. Imogen had eloped because, even if Draven Maitland did not love Imogen the way Romeo loved Juliet, Imogen herself was every bit as passionate as the Shakespearean heroine. More, perhaps. She had simply reached out and taken what she wanted. She was no passive observer. Although, Tess reminded herself, naturally Imogen will be a great deal happier and longer-lived than Juliet. — Eloisa James

I lost myself there - my mind imaging what was under his towel and what I would like to do to him. - Emma — Martha Sweeney

I have found, without a doubt, that when I manage to get outside myself and not make myself the center, I'm always taken care of in whatever situation I'm in, even if I'm slow to recognize it. It's counterintuitive thinking on some level and not consistently easy to do. — Patrick Fabian

Opportunities that always fail need change; else they will continue to keep failing till the future have its end. — Israelmore Ayivor

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing. — Laozi

Are you mocking me again?' How did this man do it? How did he knock her off balance so easily? She might not know a great deal about kissing, but she certainly knew a great deal about conversation. And until she had met Mr. Shaw, she had considered herself quite accomplished at it.

'I'm not mocking you, my lady. I answered your question. If you want a better answer, then ask a better question. You're smarter than this.'

She realized she had no idea if he was insulting her or complimenting her. — Kelly Bowen

The world ultimately is what we say it is. — David Strauss

I draw manga, therefore I am! — Hiromu Arakawa

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity. — Honore De Balzac

WARNING: Supposedly, eating quiche isn't manly, and occasionally when I eat quiche, my gynecologist will make fun of me. — Jim Gaffigan

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them. — Jack Gleeson

Do you know the kind of things that live up there? ... things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG! — Mercedes Lackey

I like films where there's a relationship between two women. I always think that's lovely to watch on the screen. — Saoirse Ronan

It was out of this river that the assassin's bullet came, regardless of who pulled the trigger or why. We accept, with the authorities, the guilt of the lonely psychopath because it tells a truth if not a fact. It dramatizes the refusal of Unreason to be silenced any longer by man's, Europe's,idea that he, Reason, rules the world. Humanism, however pretty, isn't for us because nature isn't human, and man willy nilly is of nature. Nature is unreason and God. It is the madness that runs through our lives and connects us to the stars in a way no rocket ship can ever duplicate. It connects us to all living things and to ourselves. To name this madness Holy doesn't promise peace or prosperity; it promises only a reason for being, a reinvestment of life into the dead matter of which the universe is now composed. — Alfred Chester

Even if you have kept silent for the sake of the dead, you cannot rest in your silence, as the dead rest. — Eudora Welty