Ihan Quotes & Sayings

Things may never be the same again ... — Peter Paphides

The dagger pin is all I have left. It is comfort and pain, both, because it reminds me of all I've had, held, and had taken from me.
It is my pen, too. With it, I write my story, again and again, in the walls. So I don't forget. So it becomes real.
I think of: Conrad's hands, Rachel's dark hair, Lena's rosebud mouth, how when she was an infant, I used to sneak into her bedroom and hold her while she slept. Rachel never let me - from birth, she screamed, kicked, would have woken the household and the street.
But Lena lay still and warm in my arms, submerged in some secret dreamland.
And she was my secret: those nighttime hours, that twin heartbeat space, the darkness, the joy. — Lauren Oliver

On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings. — Rob Bell

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential. — Thomas Jefferson

Don't cry for me, Grace. I'm not worth it. (Julian)
Yes you are! (Grace)
You are my saving Grace. Without you, I would never have known love. And I would never have known me again. (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. — Jodi Picoult

A mind enclosed in language is in prison. — Simone Weil

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool. — Colin Powell