Headstone Angels Quotes & Sayings

Leonard and Virginia married in August 1912. Virginia was 30. Soon after her marriage she suVered another breakdown and her mental health declined sporadically over the following year, culminating in a suicide attempt in September 1913. They were advised against having children because of Virginia's recurring depressive illness, a cause of some regret to her, and a point of much heated debate among her later biographers. — Jane Goldman

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall. — Dan Harmon

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling. — Marshall McLuhan

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family. — Alexander Wang

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. — Dana Spiotta

All I could do was stare blankly at him.
"Look." He raised both hands, palms outward. "Daisy, I'm sorry. I had no idea."
"You had no idea you had a twin sister?"
"No idea she was coming." He sounded tired.
My tail began lashing back and forth in agitation. "Oh, and where exactly did Emmy pop in from, Sinny dear? Did she drive up from Kalamazoo? Because I don't recall you mentioning a sister. And it sounded a lot like jolly old England, which I don't recall you mentioning, either. Is that something else you put behind you? Or maybe putting on accents is a thing with the Palmer clan. Pip pip, cheerio- — Jacqueline Carey

Of course Sartre and Beauvoir were not alone in being seduced by Communism. Many of the Auden generation, on both sides of the Channel, had become infatuated with the socialist 'paradise', and remained blind to its atrocities. — Carole Seymour-Jones

Do you know," he says, closing the cover of the journal only to lay his hand on top of it. Protecting it. Staring at it. "I couldn't sleep for days after I read that entry. I kept wanting to know which people were chasing you down the street, who it was you were running from. I wanted to find them," he says, so softly, "and I wanted to rip their limbs off, one by one. I wanted to murder them in ways that would horrify you to hear. — Tahereh Mafi

I didn't have to go. I could fade into the crowd, be pushed along through the tunnel, into the city. I could roll along in my bubble ball.
I was used to moving, used to packing up and following along like a robot, but I was tired of it. I wanted to stop moving and I wanted to be somewhere and stay somewhere and I wanted my family. — Sharon Creech

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief. — Amy Tan

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers. — David Letterman

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand? — James O'Barr

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. — Theodor Adorno