Ewalt Elementary Quotes & Sayings

The portal to pain is caring too deeply about anyone. — Ellen Hopkins

You are so great at creative solutions," he says, still chuckling. "They usually involve ripping, tearing, kicking, or stabbing, but they're creative. — Susan Ee

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this. — Mohammed Mahdi Akef

There is nothing like the camaraderie that one has with fellow drinkers. It is a club you never leave once you join. Well, willingly or easily. — Lynda Bellingham

In spite of your lies and deceit, I admit I do love you darling, I really do. But I must leave you anyway, because there is nothing left within you that I can live with. — Tonny K. Brown

When you missed someone you became them, that you did things to fill the space they'd left so you wouldn't feel so alone. Standing — Anna Carey

Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don't prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through. — Kristin Neff

The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal

Think of what makes you smile; makes you happy ... and do more of that shit. — Steve Maraboli

This book is for those who said I'd never get anywhere in life and those who never doubted for a second that I would. Without either of you, I wouldn't be here. Thank you. — Carrie Hope Fletcher

The sight of a slender young woman sitting in the anaconda exhibit with a 13-foot-long, predatory reptile snuggling in her lap, the tip of a tail coiled lovingly around one leg, provided dramatic evidence of what Scott and Wilson already knew: "Just about every animal," Scott says - not just mammals and birds - "can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy." Once — Sy Montgomery

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. — Colin Wilson