Frigthtened Quotes & Sayings

Without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen

A few years ago, long after it had been closed, Eli said he saw a girl swimming in it, coming out of the water in a bikini, laughing at her frigthtened boyfriend, seaweed snaking around her. He said she looked like a mermaid.
Deenie always pictured it like in one of those books of mythology she used to love, a girl rising from the foam gritted with pearls, mussels, the glitter of the sea.
"It looks beautiful", her mother had said once when they were driving by at night, its waters opaline. "It is beautiful. But it makes people sick."
To Deenie, it was one of many interesting things that adults said would kill you: Easter lilles, jellyfish, copperhead snakes with their diamond heads, tails bright as sulfur. Don't touch, don't taste, don't get too close.
And then, last week. — Megan Abbott

All you who draw near to serve God in prayer, learn to be like Him, meek, humble, and true of heart; do not let there be any deceitfulness or duplicity nor coldness in your soul. — John Of Kronstadt

My name is Stuart, and I remember everything. — Julian Barnes

I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence. — Jennifer Nettles

Jesus and with God. We all know the need of time for our meals each — Andrew Murray

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red. — Maria Sharapova

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche

No one in Cattaraugus had much idea of what an artist' colony might be. "Art" itself was viewed with suspicion, scorn. There was the sense, as people like my mother conveyed it, of a fraud, a hustle. "Art" was putting something over on someone, the way politicians did. "Art" was a sorry excuse for not being productive, useful. "Art" was vanity, pretension. — Lauren Kelly

If my ex-husband had had his way, I would have quit writing and continued working in his factory. — Nele Neuhaus

It was just one of those times in life when you know that God is speaking. — Angie Smith

Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth - that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me. — Winnie Holzman

I believe as well that - that American strength is - is essential economic strength, family and value strength, military strength is essential for our own good that these things not only help secure peace for other people but preserve peace for us and - and promise greater prosperity for America. — Mitt Romney

May God open our mind and hearts to the gospel of salvation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea. — James Baldwin