Heilmann Boxes Quotes & Sayings

When had I gotten so afraid of love and hope that I strangled it to death with my insecurity? Maybe it was easier to date an ugly man, one with obvious flaws, one who belched and couldn't dress, and wasn't so damn perfectly tempting. At least then I'd feel confident. — Alessandra Torre

He shook his head. "Not a bit of it. When I arrived, I was small and dark and ugly. The perfect quarry for every bully. And then, one day, I grew tired of it. I had discovered that sarcasm and wit could be far more effective than fists. The duller-brained the boy, the more others laughed at my bons mots. And so I became a nasty bit of goods in my own way, fighting with words where I could not fight with fists. — Ashley Gardner

Even after all this time, I hope. — Marie Lu

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent. — Steve Burns

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. — Herman Melville

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things. — Erin Morgenstern

You have sea, you have boat, you have oars, and then why on earth you are rotting in the port? — Mehmet Murat Ildan