Fieschi Letter Quotes & Sayings

It had ended bitterly; though at the time he could never come up with a reason not to, he could not bring himself to propose. She had not taken hold of him; he could see now that that was the problem. And so he left the tears and fury in Milan and took the train down to Rome. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them. — Luis Guzman

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean. — Aristotle.

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually ... your life experience. — Esther Hicks

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The voters in Wisconsin elected me last year for the third time because they wanted someone who aimed high, not aimed low. Before I came in, the unemployment rate was over eight percent. It's now down to 4.6 percent. — Scott Walker

She stroked his shoulder, up as far as his neck and back again. Over his chest. And he thought she must be able to feel his heart beating and that she was like the Pioneer TV they had stopped producing because it was too good, and you could see it was good because the black part of the picture was so black. — Jo Nesbo

Neat little boys in neat little shirts, so earnest and wholesome, but hidden underneath their faces were old hags, skin pitted with acid. — Mariam Petrosyan

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever. — Jeffrey R. Holland

That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says.
"Sometimes I ask myself how I'm feeling," Amelia says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'd like to be feeling. — Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes the most difficult battles are the ones we are forced not to fight. — R.A. Salvatore