Geboten Quotes & Sayings

In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation. — Lemony Snicket

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care — Leonard Cohen

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people. — Bill Sienkiewicz

Tell her parents they made a big mistake calling the police. Call off the dogs," said the caller, "or we'll hurt Madison. Permanently. If you back off, she'll stay alive and well, but either way, the Tylers will never see their daughter — James Patterson

For what is a man, what are we all, but bits of time caught for a moment in a tangle of blood, bones, skin, and brain? She was time. Mauser was time. I am a sorry bit of time myself. We are time's containers. Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny. — Louise Erdrich

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers. — Satish Kumar

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her. — Danielle Steel

Why aren't boys more engaged in school? According to Sommers, schools today tend to be run by women for girls. Classrooms can be hostile environments for boys. They like action, competition and adventure stories. Those are not in favor. Games like tag and dodge-ball are out; tug of war has become tug of peace, and male heroes have been replaced by Girl Power. — Helen Smith

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? — Laurell K. Hamilton