Groppai Quotes & Sayings

I sat on the floor behind him, putting my legs on either side of his hips so that my calves were over the edge, and I rested my cheek on his bare back. He continued to play and I recognized the tune. Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones. — D.D. Prince

Books are like bacon for the mind. — Thomas F. Shubnell

I want to live a lifetime in this moment--these precious seconds between anticipation and ectasy. — J.A. DeRouen

If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean — Jim Ross

When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life. — Khaled Hosseini

I'll always wait for you. However long it takes — Wesley Chu

My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What ... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh ... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence. — Bonnie McFarlane

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Just because you can't take something back, doesn't mean you don't want to. Just because you want to, doesn't mean you try. — Robin Wasserman

Remember you are everything, or you are nothing. If you are everything, then your heart is so big it can hold all of humanity within itself, you have no jealousy or narrowness. You are in the heart of every creature and every creature is in your heart. There is only bliss.
Intro to Part 2, Chapter 4. Credit given to Swami Purna. — Deborah Moggach

The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf. — Jack Kornfield

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction. — Kate Milford