Galizio Torres Quotes & Sayings

She wondered what it sounded like when your heart broke. Glass shattering? The thundering roar of falling mountains? Or maybe the squishy rip of a real heart? — Jen Wylie

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides. — Dylan Thomas

Like threads of old spider webs, still sticky and hovering, the past waits for us to submit, or depart. When I least expect it, a memory comes skittering out of the dark, spinning and netting the air, ready to snap me up and ensnare me in old and complex puzzles. Just a glimpse of a worn-out patchwork quilt and the old question comes thudding out of the night again like a great moth. Why did my mother not return? After all these years, I find myself wondering, but with the dullness of expecting no response. — Joy Kogawa

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration. — Violet Haberdasher

Julie crossed her arms. "I'm serious. Flat Finn can't possibly go to school with her, right?"
"He already went to Brandeis so, no, he doesn't need to repeat seventh grade. Although they did make him take a bunch of tests in order to qualify out. He barely passed the oral exams, though, because the instructors found him withholding and tight-lipped. It's a terribly biased system, but at least he passed and won't have to suffer through the school's annual reenactment of the first Thanksgiving. He has a pilgrim phobia."
"Funny. Really, what's the deal with Flat Finn?"
"After an unfortunate incident involving Wile E. Coyote and an anvil, Three Dimensional Finn had to change his name. — Jessica Park

Yoga is the space where flower blossoms. — Amit Ray

Draw a floor plan of the house you lived in as a child, including all the floors. — Jean J. Jenson

Just because a thought pops into your head does not mean it is fit to come out of your mouth. — Belle Blackburn

We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city. — Bilal Tanweer

These ladies are not stupid, or ignorant. Mrs. Thompson can read both Latin and Spanish, and Ms. Voigtlander is a certified speech therapist who once explained to me that the strange gulping sound that makes NBC's Tom Brokaw so distracting to listen to is an actual speech impediment called a glottal L. It was one of the ladies out in the kitchen supporting Mrs. R - - who pointed out that 11 September is the anniversary of the Camp David Accords, which was certainly news to me. What — David Foster Wallace

Miranda," he said. "How long has it been?" This seemed to her a silly question. She'd assumed, she realized, that everyone remembers the date of their divorce, the same way everyone remembers their wedding date. "Eleven years," she said. — Emily St. John Mandel

Devoid of the outside influences of capital and technology, the source of bitcoin value becomes the pure irreversible passage of time. The — George Gilder

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way. — Lady Gaga

I thank the Lord daily for His glorious blessings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon ... remarkable ... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly — Philip Toynbee