Hortensia Flower Quotes & Sayings

There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product. — Edmund White

I already unleashed Baghra on Nikolai. He's going to think I stockpile vicious old women. — Leigh Bardugo

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay. — Mahatma Gandhi

Dylan: I'd stolen chocolate from there, back when I was into that kind of thing. Stealing, not chocolate ... whatever. — Susan Bischoff

That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch! — Cornelia Funke

I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions. — John Eccles

Mystics throughout the world have spoken of the inner experience of unity with the Self, a reality defined in our language by the Sanskrit term yoga, meaning union, and the word "religion", which comes from the Latin religare, meaning to bind or link. — Gwenael Verez

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. — Georg C. Lichtenberg