Fruited Mulberry Quotes & Sayings

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it. — Dave Matthews

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it. — George Bernard Shaw

Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh'ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don't let someone steal your tenderness. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. — Zooey Deschanel

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life. — Byron Katie

To say we know a person is to write that person off. — Yiyun Li

At that instant, I knew exactly what I wanted out of life: this. This feeling, this happiness, this embrace. — James Patterson

So, what should I call you before you die?" she asked over the sound of the rain. "Bull-headed Mule? Surly Bastard?
"Mallor."
"The Mallor?"
He didn't answer.
"You're supposed to be dead!"
He pulled the collar up on his long coat and stepped out into the driving rain. "Someday, I'll get it right. — Shawn Wickersheim

Death was bleach and it burned away the stains, leaving nothing but white. — Lee Thomas

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time. — Lalla Ward

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort. — Anna C. Brackett

Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank. — Neal Stephenson

In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you're flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn. — Laura Wiess