Hichem Boudaoui Quotes & Sayings

That night, before bed, he goes first to Willem's side of the closet, which he has still not emptied. Here are Willem's shirts on their hangers, and his sweaters on their shelves, and his shoes lined up beneath. He takes down the shirt he needs, a burgundy plaid woven through with threads of yellow, which Willem used to wear around the house in the springtime, and shrugs it on over his head. But instead of putting his arms through its sleeves, he ties the sleeves in front of him, which makes the shirt look like a straitjacket, but which he can pretend - if he concentrates - are Willem's arms in an embrace around him. He climbs into bed. This ritual embarrasses and shames him, but he only does it when he really needs it, and tonight he really needs it. — Hanya Yanagihara

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! — Gloria Steinem

You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption. — Wm. Paul Young

Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie — Alexander McCall Smith

Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time. — Frances Hardinge

Naught will be done to you that you doona wish done. Dageus MacKeltar — Karen Marie Moning

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. — James Russell Lowell

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget. — Mark Kirk

You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical. — Dianna Hardy

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. — William Ralph Inge