Guapa Quotes & Sayings

After all, aren't housekeepers the bearers of all family secrets — Saleem Haddad

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them. — Karen Bass

You know people say the opposite of fear is desire, where we presumably run away from what we fear and toward what we desire. But fear and desire are more complicated than that. There's fear at the heart of every desire and desire at the heart of fear. So I wonder, by desiring Taymour, what exactly are you afraid of? — Saleem Haddad

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine. — Raymond Chandler

Whenever something serious happens, you're supposed to count yourself lucky and be happy. — Harry Mulisch

You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It's certainly safer than keeping it in the bank! — Nicole McKay

After a while, when you are as ugly as I am, as ugly as women can be, then, as I say, after a while the feeling, the idiotic feeling that you are beautiful, grows slowly in one again. It grows like a cabbage. And then, when the feeling is grown, another man sees you and thinks you are beautiful and it is all to do over. Now I think I am past it, but it still might come. You are lucky, 'guapa', that you are not ugly — Ernest Hemingway,

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. — Edmund Husserl

Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but who judge you anyway. — Christina Engela

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing. — Fennel Hudson

Rodrigo tried to draw a deep breath, but his chest was too filled with anguish, rage and guilt. He kissed his ash-coated fingers. "I love you," he whispered. "I love you more than life itself." Curling his fingers into his fist, he pressed it against his chest. So, I will surely see you soon ... and then, my love, we shall be together in our forever now. — Lisa Valdez

Do you think I'm too Westernized?" I asked Leila as we walked back home from the library.
"What do you mean?"
"This guy, Sufyan, says I'm too Westernized."
"The American guy? You're letting an American guy tell you whether you're Arab enough?"
"He's originally Arab - " I began.
"Oh please. Arab Americans are even worse than white people. They look at you like they know you, as if they have an idea of what you're like from stereotypes and their parents' ancient memories. And when you don't conform to their image it terrifies them, because they wear their Arab culture like window dressing but underneath they are as white as snow. — Saleem Haddad

We all tell lies to protect our solitude. We deny the truth and present a false image of ourselves to blend into society. — Saleem Haddad

What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset? — Fritz Leiber