Famous Zen Koan Quotes & Sayings

The Nazis had broken our windows and torn apart our furniture, but they had not destroyed our selves. — Robert Sharenow

The thing about the ocean is that the surface won't always tell you what is going on underneath. — Jennifer Arnett

His lips follow a trail from my mouth to my jaw, down to my throat. As he nuzzles, he suckles, nips my skin before circling back to my mouth to taste me, ravage me, own me. — Magda Alexander

I think it was then that it dawned on me that Mum wasn't going to notice Chris was missing. She has been made so that she thinks Chris is just round the corner all the time. She doesn't realise that she never sees him. I don't know why I didn't understand earlier. If Aunt Maria can turn Chris into a wolf, she's surely strong enough to do this to Mum- except that it seems a different kind of thing, much more natural and ordinary, and I didn't really think she could do both kinds. — Diana Wynne Jones

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame. — Nicolas Chamfort

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am. — Neneh Cherry

Find beauty in the madness. — A.D. Posey

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is. — Nathan Oliveira

Romance is the icing but love is the cake. — Julia Child