Exilul Romanesc Quotes & Sayings

He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him. — Gustave Flaubert

They think they can keep me out, but it does not matter how many locks they hang at the entrance. There is always another door.
- The Thief Who Stole the Stars, by Tristan Chirsley — Marie Lu

She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said. — Maureen Johnson

How could Lincoln reply to such comments, without offending abolitionists or frightening slave-owning Unionists from the Upper South? Placating words were likewise out of the question. A plea from Virginia suggesting Lincoln need do no more than assure Southerners they had the right to bring their property into all American territories reminded the dubious president-elect of an apt story. It concerned a little girl who begged her mother to let her play outside. The mother repeatedly said no, the child persisted, and the mother finally lost patience and gave her a whipping, "upon which," Lincoln chortled, "the girl exclaimed: 'Now, Ma. I can certainly run out. — Harold Holzer

But I used to think," Josef says quietly, "that there are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers."
(pg 134) — Jodi Picoult

The press, the media, the internet - they'll make the noise, make the screaming, the screaming all the time, and the truth and my voice will be lost. The blaming and the noise, human things, they'll make it about human things, not the truth. How can anyone live with it? How can anyone live with so much screaming in their lives, all the time? — Claire North

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. — Christopher Lasch

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within. — Bryant H. McGill

That's what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn't worry - poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow — Anne Sexton

This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good! — Becky G

So the convict establishment, born of poverty and hatred, gave birth to wealth and hope. — Keith Sinclair

Seriously, I don't care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I'd follow him into a bank and rob it at his side. — Kristen Ashley

You're the scarest motherfucker in the room. — Laurell K. Hamilton

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know. — William Cowper

As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up ... so we can focus ... so we can be in concert with one another. — Phil Jackson