Gadfli Quotes & Sayings

No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed. — Judith Spencer

I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins — Oscar Wilde

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision. — Debasish Mridha

It's like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It's still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I'm not sure that will ever change. — Anne Tyler

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them. — George Eliot

I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?"
His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you. — Stephanie Perkins

I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life. — Randall Robinson