Grumors Quotes & Sayings

When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell. — Julian Barnes

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery. — Henry Louis Gates

Accept the challenges of life and you'll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living ... it's merely a state of mind. — Mychal Wynn

Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, — Charles Dickens

...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork. — Rebecca Solnit

The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it. — Tina Yothers

Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky. — Alice Hoffman

He was awake; probably he had had the same dream as she. They had the same starry stuff in their veins, after all. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book. — Cassandra Clare

There are nonreaders, of course. I knew a man in his nineties who, when he learned that I was a writer, admitted to me that he had tried to read a book, once, long before I was born, but he had been unable to see the point of it, and had never tried again. I asked him if he remembered the name of the book, and he told me, in the manner of someone who tried to eat a snail once and did not care for it, and who does not need to remember the breed of the snail, that one was much like another, surely. — Neil Gaiman

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. — Gertrude Stein

This was crazy. He ate humans for breakfast. Not to
mention he was older than Father Time. So why was I
falling for him, falling for him when I couldn't help but
push everyone else away? It frightened me to feel this
way, yet I couldn't stop this and didn't want to. — Laura Thalassa