Jlu Quotes & Sayings

I went to the fights, and a hockey game broke out. — Steven Wright

of the palace to inform me that Lady Margaret — Philippa Gregory

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bubble-gum angels swooped from top margins, or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs. Maidens with golden hair dripped sea-blue tears into the books spine. Grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered species list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, Candyland ladders and striped shamrocks. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view. — Cesar Millan

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises. — Saul Alinsky

And the poser has a girlfriend. Ten years younger. The Blond Weed, Ove calls her. Tottering around the streets like an inebriated panda on heels as long as box wrenches, with clown paint all over her face and sunglasses so big that one can't tell whether they're a pair of glasses or some kind of helmet. She also has one of those handbag animals, running about off the leash and pissing on the paving stones outside Ove's house. She thinks Ove doesn't notice, but Ove always notices. — Fredrik Backman

Like the terrestrial crust of the earth / which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul / is a miracle of mutual pressures. — Anne Carson

Truth is not a path you follow, but one created by your footsteps. — Frederick Dodson