Illumined Arms Quotes & Sayings

I write for young girls of color, for girls who don't even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think. — Ntozake Shange

Usually the knights would build their castles above a road, just as inns are now built beside the road, the better to plunder the people going past, though admittedly in different ways. — Jeremias Gotthelf

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience. — Maurice Saatchi

Home court will be tremendous. That will be a big relief, playing at home in front of the energy and the fans. — Reggie Evans

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

If your heart isn't yet illumined
Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart,
Be at war continually with your carnal soul.
But if your heart is already awakened,
Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love — Rumi

You're such a girl," she chided, but somehow the words came out too soft ... too tender, and ended up sounding like a compliment.
Jay just laughed. "So what does that make you, the guy?" He squeezed her hand even tighter, keeping it buried in his.
"Or some sort of lesbian," she teased, raising one eyebrow. "Maybe we should try out a little girl-on-girl action."
"Nice, Violet. Do you kiss your mom with that mouth?" His eyes glinted as he watched her.
She leaned closer to him in the darkness of the car's interior. "No, but I'll kiss you with it. — Kimberly Derting

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper ... talking about the things that matter to us. — Patricia Reilly Giff

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be. — Atul Gawande