Gardipee Quotes & Sayings

I like it when stories are left open. — Alan Rickman

Chinese whisper games will start, where one woman will nod at a young dancing girl, asking a question that is passed down the row from one woman to another, before a response comes back up the line in the same manner. These women are in the business of finding wives for their sons and they offer up occasional commentary on the performance before them.
"Not so pretty. Her sister is better."
"That poor one will have a hard time, yes. The dark skin - she is already an old woman. She will have to wait, yes."
Information about the girl's family's honor, purity, and place in society is also exchanged — Jenny Nordberg

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities. — Paulo Coelho

Giving someone the freedom to take responsibility releases resources that would otherwise remain concealed. — Jan Carlzon

The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down! — Mitch Hewer

Yes, she was proud of her body, and no one could criticise her for that: even if she were seventy years old, she would still be proud of her body, because it was through her body that the soul could do its work — Paulo Coelho

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead. — Anita Baker

Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident? — Jodi Picoult

If you think that you are proud of yourself,
you do not know what you are thinking.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546
October 9, 2016 — Petra Hermans

I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn't show up at the train station tomorrow, the paper said, I would be treated as a wanted criminal and hunted down without mercy. — Edith Hahn Beer

Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God. — Tullian Tchividjian