Friary House Quotes & Sayings

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. — Stephen King

The smoke burns slightly down my throat and to my lungs. I focus on this, and empty my head, empty the images of Skye's beautiful face all bruised up.
In the end, I can't even give her what she's rightfully asking. A kiss. Just a fucking kiss on her lips. Even that I'm unable to do. It'd be pathetic if our situation and our past weren't so tragic.
I take another drag of my cigarette and watch the smoke swirling in the room only lit by the moonlight. - Duke — Stephanie Witter

She was nobody here. It was not just that she had no friends and family; it was rather that she was a ghost in this room, in the streets on the way to work, on the shop floor. Nothing meant anything. The rooms in the house on Friary Street belonged to her, she thought; when she moved in them she was really there. In the town, if she walked to the shop or to the Vocational School, the air, the light, the ground, it was all solid and part of her, even if she met no one familiar. Nothing here was part of her. It was false, empty, she thought. She closed her eyes and tried to think, as she had done so many times in her life, of something she was looking forward to, but there was nothing. Not the slightest thing. Not even Sunday. Nothing maybe except sleep, and she was not even certain she was looking forward to sleep. In any case, she could not sleep yet, since it was not yet nine o'clock. There was nothing she could do. It was as though she had been locked away. — Colm Toibin

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death. — Bryce Dallas Howard

Every good deed is glory to God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am honored and humbled by the fine reviews my new book "Why We Lover Serial Killers" is receiving. — Scott A. Bonn

You may not be punished for your procrastination, but for sure you will be punished by your procrastination. — Debasish Mridha

If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google and Facebook are now - how do we get more people to buy a copy? Then there was a shift in the early 20th century. They needed to do better, and readers and consumers demanded that of them. — Eli Pariser

Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar
I say, you say, he and she, it, on the other hand, does not say
paying for the privilege of sanity with common coin, with meanings we've agreed on. — Margaret Atwood

Hope, and faith that your efforts will have been enough. And as much peace as you can muster with the possibility that they won't. — Cecilia Grant