Quotes & Sayings About How Huck Finn Matures

It was the furthest thing in the world from the rosy-fingered dawn of poetry and old Technicolor movies; this was an anti-dawn, damp and as pale as the cheek of a day-old corpse. — Stephen King

I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it.
But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going. — Lawrence Block

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? — William Lloyd Garrison

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism. — Frederick Lenz

Love and exclusive possession can never go together. — Mahatma Gandhi

Is a series of promises." When she'd realized that - marriage equaled promises - she hadn't feared it. As much. "Maybe you can't keep them all. The whole till-death-do-us-part business. Maybe you can't keep that one. Life can be long, and people change, circumstances change, so okay. You realize you don't really want this life or this person, or the person you made the promises to isn't who you thought, or they've changed in a way you can't accept or support. Whatever. You make a choice. Stick and try to work it through, or don't. But don't give me the boo-hoo, I'm not happy so I'm getting naked with somebody else on the side. It insults everybody. — J.D. Robb

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore. — Wouter Van Gastel

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. — Napoleon Hill

No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence. — Gloria Steinem

Intellect in the practice room or studio gives you the tools to use your heart on stage. — Manny Laureano

I think woman is phenomenal, magnificent. I mean that sincerely. — Luke Goss

You have to be careful what seeds you sow on dirt where your roots have not yet touched the bedrock. — Kaimana Wolff