Hinestrosa Orlando Quotes & Sayings

Reggie was so sick of it all. The things people knew (or thought they knew) about other people. Maybe everyone had a secret life, not just Vera. She suddenly hated all of it. She wanted people to be as see-through as fish tanks, no more murkiness, no misdirection. No lies and bullshit. No secret rooms or lies about being the star of some goddamn play that didn't even exist. — Jennifer McMahon

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire. — Michel De Montaigne

To be bound is a burden, but it is the actions we freely take that cause us the most pain. — Danielle L. Jensen

Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists. — Marshall McLuhan

Fighting with siblings, especially the little ones, has always, and will always be the same. You fight with your hands tied behind your back. You know that you'll lose. But you still fight back, either you want to annoy them or let them feel the extra satisfaction of beating you after a long fight. No matter which of the two ways you take, it clearly shows that you love them. A lot. — Nishanth Anchan K.N.

Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? — Ayn Rand

Only you would reduce centuries of the mythical undead to 'fangy. ' " (Quinn to Lucy) — Alyxandra Harvey

Don't ask, don't tell means that World War III will pit the Chinese Red Army against the Pink Army of the United States. — Bill Gaede

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same. — George Allen

In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ... in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. It is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. But this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about. — Doris Lessing

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research. — Jennifer Gilmore