Jelama Ostapenko Quotes & Sayings

There are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you. — Inez Haynes Irwin

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate. — Marguerite Duras

You're necessary to me, and that's why I've come to you — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours. — James Elkins

Give everything away. Create an emptiness to fill again and again with love. — Debasish Mridha

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people. — Oliver Goldsmith

There is truth in stories," said Arthur. "There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die. — Cassandra Clare

To be such a complicated, mysterious piece of biological machinery, and more amazing still, to have the capacity to analyze that machinery! — Veronica Roth

Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it — Alexander McCall Smith

If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back. — Heidi Tankersley

There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film ... — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

It was then I cried, cried for the fact of not having cried and for the immensity of tears yet to be shed. — Edna O'Brien

Loneliness does not arise so much from something lost as from a longing for something well remembered. Isolation cares nothing for memory. — Marguerite Poland

I am going to hurt you.
You are going to hurt me.

But we will do it with practiced fingers
and passionate mouths
and I swear to god

it will be worth something. — Trista Mateer

Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent. — Jeff VanderMeer