Gersten Pavilion Quotes & Sayings

Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared. — Jesse Browner

No. I was driving Tristan's car."
Ivy heard the sharp intake of breath.
"When I saw the window, I tried to stop the car. I stepped on the brake, but the car wouldn't slow down. Then I heard his voice. 'Ivy, stop! Stop! Don't you see, Ivy? Ivy, stop!' But I couldn't stop. I couldn't slow down. I pressed down the pedal over and over. I had no brakes!"
Ivy felt cold all over. Gregory's arms were around her, but his own skin was cold with sweat.
"Why were there no brakes?" she whispered. "Am I remembering, Gregory? What am I remembering? — Elizabeth Chandler

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. — Mignon McLaughlin

I think back to the last thing Dave said to me and try to imagine what escaping oxygen would look like. It looks a lot like drowning. — A.S. King

Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area. — Adolph Malan

We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence. — James Florio

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles

I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky.
Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature.
It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past. — Toba Beta

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave. — Percival Everett