Ilona Ostrowska Quotes & Sayings

I loved her weight in my arms. It was like I'd always been an unbalanced scale that was finally correctly calibrated. — Emily Bleeker

This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn't see them in my mind's eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. There was only the stillness and the silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing process. — Cheryl Strayed

Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment. — Ahmed Zewail

Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest. — William Shakespeare

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Sidious rejected outrage and intimidation for rankled curiosity. Is this the point where I'm expected to ask why I've been abducted? — James Luceno

I had a lot of friends that were extremely hedonistic, extremely debauched, swapping partners etc. — Sophie Anderton

You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them. — Rhonda Byrne