Quotes & Sayings About Gifts Goodreads

Nothing I do will make death disappear
Or let your shudder or your knowledge go.
See the world whole, and see it clearly then,
A globe of dirt crusted with bones of men.
If we walk, we walk on graves.
- from Shudder — Donald Hall

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed. — Frederick Lenz

Prayer was and is both a spontaneous act and a recitative — Scot McKnight

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty? — Boonaa Mohammed

When you're faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and there are a lots of things you want to do. — Stephen Hawking

There was, between her and Mik, a fairy-tale promise: that when he had performed three heroic tasks, he could ask for her hand. She'd meant it in jest, but he'd taken it to heart, and was only one task down out of three - though secretly Zuzana accepted his fixing the air-conditioning in their last hotel room as a heroic act and counted it. — Laini Taylor

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for. — Jodie Foster

What was wrong with darkness? In the darkness of the Earth the Mother caused seeds to sprout. In the darkness of the womb a baby was conceived. In the darkness of the graves her Children returned to her. — Dave Duncan

A l'amour, aux plaisir, aux boccage," he quoted softly, then turned the words to English: "In love, in pleasure, in the woods, spend your beautiful days ... " I stared up at him, dumbly, my heart rising in my throat. I was not aware of the precise moment when we stopped dancing, when he turned those deep, forest-colored eyes on mine and traced the outline of my face with a delicate touch. "These are your beautiful days, Mariana Farr," he said gently, and then his shoulders blocked the sunlight as he lowered his head to mine and kissed me. — Susanna Kearsley