Grisales Violin Quotes & Sayings

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance. — Edward Hirsch

Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen. — Oliver Hazard Perry

Clair de Lune," a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide. The music slinks and rises and settles back to earth, — Anthony Doerr

Backpackers can pack much more meows than baggers. Beggars never feed stray cats as street cats are self-sustaining. — Will Advise

Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue? — Jo Brand

It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try ... you are all shite! — Noel Gallagher

Why can't I be like that? Why can't I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why can't I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why can't I be the one who befriends a lonely, lost girl and then casts her out? Why can't I be the one to strike first, to hit so early and with such fury that my enemies cower before they can ever think of turning on me? What is so great about being good? — Marie Lu

Laia is curled in a ball on the other, one hand on her armlet, fast asleep.
"You are my temple", I murmur as I knee beside her. "You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release."- Elias — Sabaa Tahir

Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations. — Mahatma Gandhi

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. — Salvador Dali

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it. — Anthony Trollope

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. — Christopher Lasch

In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes ... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year ... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law ... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

It was easier to talk about nothing than something. Because something was too terrible to discuss. Too dark and terrible to even think about. — Lurlene McDaniel