Gallick Properties Quotes & Sayings

I can be human to strangers and coworkers, just not to the people who actually care about me. — Sara Zarr

My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down. — Rita Dove

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it. — Henry David Thoreau

Someone like you could be so, how do you say, fortunate, said Bok. — David Baldacci

It might cause considerable surprise to the informed observer (who does not exist) to note that Mr B's eyes begin to fill with tears. They overflow and spill down along the deep soft creases of his careworn face as he sits very still in the centre of the unstill world and weeps rivers of salty water for all the lost souls, including his own. — Meg Rosoff

It was my duty to... Oh, hell. Of course, duty had nothing to do with it. I just wanted to get back at her and this was the only way that presented itself. — Martin M. Goldsmith

You are a person. Words are labels. Don't ever accept to be labeled because labels are for things and you are not. — Joan Ambu

Often when we read, especially when we are younger, we are looking for a mirror, echoes of our voices, people who might look and sound like us.... Write for the twelve-year-old girl, who is looking at a mirror, at a window.

~Edwidge Danticat — Donna Everhart

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect. — William Hazlitt

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness. — Debbie Ford

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do. — Andre Gide