Gibeah Gibeon Quotes & Sayings

I still smell your absence on my skin. It smells of insomnia and rusted key locks... — Malak El Halabi

For he had never heard anything like it
did not know such music existed in the world
and it was hard to believe that a man he knew could play it with his own two hands. There were parts of it like birdsong, and parts like rolling thunder and hard rain, and parts that glittered like fresh snow when the sun comes out and it's so cold the air takes your breath away. And parts were like a dust devil spinning past, or a cyclone on the horizon, and all of it cried out for words that he had only read in books and had never said aloud. — Mary Doria Russell

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick, — Mark Lanegan

When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall. — Ulysses S. Grant

All power is hidden in Humility — Wendy Magee

My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it was more like the passage into hell on earth. — Kirsty Moseley

I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying. — James Marsters

The world promises things that are temporal and small, and it is served with great eagerness. I (Christ) promise things that are great and eternal, and the hearts of mortals are slow to stir. — Thomas A Kempis

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons. — E.P. Thompson

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth. The same when I write a story. — Amy Hempel

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions. — Cory Doctorow