Escuchas Quotes & Sayings

The mixtures of shells and light makes you confused and unhappy. One side employing the force of he other merging. You're one of those people who hears the sun come up. — Robert Stone

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales. — Albert Einstein

I felt guilty that I hadn't thought of Kizuki right away, as if I had somehow abandoned him. Back in my room, though, I came to think of it this way: two and a half years have gone by since it happened, and Kizuki is still seventeen years old. Not that this means my memory of him has faded. The things that his death gave rise to are still there, bright and clear, inside me, some of them even clearer than when they were new. What I want to say is this: I'm going to turn twenty soon. Part of what Kizuki and I shared when we were sixteen and seventeen has already vanished, and no amount of crying is going to bring that back. I can't explain it any better than this, but I think that you can probably understand what I felt and what I am trying to say. — Haruki Murakami

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work. — Junot Diaz

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it. — Natasha Lyonne

the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor. — Geraldine Brooks

I'll tell you that whatever you feel for anyone, however much love's inside you, there's more of it when you have a child. You can't understand it until you've experienced it. And it doesn't change as they grow into men, into women. It just grows with them. It should be me in there, and not my boy. — J.D. Robb

When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them. — Aeschylus

We are not our station in life. We are us - the sum of what we've done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close. — Pierce Brown

I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him. — David Gemmell

In all the heroic tales, dying soldiers saw their lives pass before their eyes. No, Martin realized. The memories were just running like rats from a sinking ship, down the ropes only to drown. He watched the backs of their heads. — J.P. Moore

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest. — Anton Chekhov