Hysterical Contagion Quotes & Sayings

And sometimes
when she does remember,
she calls me her little angel
and she knows where she is
and everything is all right
for a second or a minute
and then we cry;
she for the life that she lost
I for the woman I only know about
through the stories of her children. — Rebecca Rijsdijk

I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home. — Howard Coble

Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn't necessarily wrong. — Terry Goodkind

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to. — Sue Grafton

The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so terribly eager to see and hear and let him (the son) know he was seen and heard, the son had become a steadily more and more hidden boy, toward the wraith's life's end; and no one else in the wraith and the boy's nuclear family would see or acknowledge this, the fact that the graceful and marvelous boy was disappearing, right before their eyes. They looked but did not see his invisibility. — David Foster Wallace

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality. — Barbet Schroeder

Because it's the same as in mine. Because I love you, Julia. I am completely in love with you, and I love you, and I want you to love me, he said, never breaking his gaze from hers, his beautiful brown eyes flooded with love. — Lauren Blakely

In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point. — Meghan Daum

I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old. — Michelle Kwan

I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it! — Philippe Petit

Just do the right thing when the time comes. — Jerry Ibbotson