Goldsands Quotes & Sayings

Only debt is forever. — Charles Stross

I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into my drag from every detail of the costume, makeup and hair to my performance, the way I speak or even stand. — Manila Luzon

Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they're flawed and broken somehow. If they're not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That's what an author does if he or she has any dignity. — Ben Peek

All those who leave immigrate to better lives, but I wanted to better my death. Maybe it is the ending that matter, not the life, I thought. Maybe we, like elephants, walk towards our chosen burials. — Rawi Hage

This kind of for-getfulness was called repression, and is the normal mechanism by which nature protects the individual from such painful feelings as are caused by unpleasant and unacceptable experiences and thoughts, the recognition of his egoistic nature, and the often quite unbearable conflict of his weaknesses with his feelings of idealism. — C. G. Jung

Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation; surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever.
-Personal Revolutions — Oli Anderson

You have to voice your thoughts so you can know you're not the only one who's fucked up. — Tarryn Fisher

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was. — Gore Vidal

And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. — Madeline Miller

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage. — Edwin Land

I've got soul but I'm not a soldier — Karen Marie Moning

Abel put his hands on her shoulders. "You're cold. You're shivering."
She nodded. "It's not important ... "
"Sure it is," and then, in a very low voice, with a private kind of smile, he said, "Rose girl, I told you the branches would wither and you would freeze. You wanted to stay on board ... "
Anna nodded. "I'm staying. — Antonia Michaelis

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life — Rajneesh

Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be ... the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller) — Tammara Webber