Grasset Editions Quotes & Sayings

It used to. Now, it's just broken. How do I fix it?" "Sometimes, we can't. — Penelope Ward

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value. — Vivien Leigh

When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been. — Stephen King

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness. — Nancy Etcoff

Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga? — Maureen Johnson

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad. — Jean Liedloff

Freedom is not an individual effort.
Yours comes only when you grant others theirs — Sergio Aragones

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. — Mark Twain

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. — Kim Addonizio

I like to think of people as roses, as they grow older, they slowly and unwillingly start giving up on life, even though they want it. I like to think of people as roses, because I think that they don't know how lovely they could be sometimes. And that they're meant to die, but they do their best to give pleasure to others' eyes and hearts. — Abraham M. Alghanem

Consider this, believer. You have no right to heaven in yourself: your right lies in Christ. If you are pardoned, it is through his blood; if you are justified, it is through his righteousness; if you are sanctified, it is because he is made of God unto you sanctification; if you shall be kept from falling, it will be because you are preserved in Christ Jesus; and if you are perfected at the last, it will be because you are complete in him. Thus Jesus is magnified - for all is in him and by him; thus the inheritance is made certain to us - for it is obtained in him; thus each blessing is the sweeter, and even heaven itself the brighter, because it is Jesus our Beloved "in whom" we have obtained all. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon