Glaros Refrigerator Quotes & Sayings

I think about the people I know with the absolutely largest hearts, people with a stunning capacity for endurance and grace and kindness against the most screaming terrors and pains. My Mom and Dad, for example, enduring the death of their first child at six months old, the boy the brother I never met, dying quietly in his stroller on the porch in the moment that my mother stepped back inside to get a pair of gloves because the crisp brilliant April wind was filled with a whistling cutting wind....

Fifty years later after five more children and two miscarriages she is standing in the kitchen with her usual eternal endless cup of tea and I ask her: How do you get over the death of your child?

And she says, in her blunt honest direct terse kind way,
You don't.
Her face harrowed like a hawk for a moment in the swirling steam of the tea.
p112-13 — Brian Doyle

I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. — Paul Giamatti

Lothaire said, "I have a much better plan."
"Why help him?" Thad asked pointedly. "When you don't help anybody else?"
Lothaire exhaled ruefully. "Incurable romantic. — Kresley Cole

I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust. — Monica Seles

To fall for the notion of a 'double truth' and argue there was one set of truths for reason and another for faith and never the two shall meet made nonsense of the idea of truth itself. — Arthur Herman

Why, she asked herself, why keep a wound open when forgiveness can close it? — Alexander McCall Smith

There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them. — Darnell Lamont Walker

My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark. — Joan Rivers

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view. — Katherine Howe

Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man. — Sheldon B. Kopp

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. — Ben Kingsley

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet. — Charlie Jane Anders