K Berit 356 Quotes & Sayings

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift. — Sue Miller

Let's pursue excellence together. Let's make art. Let's build the future. Let's be our best selves. — Jo Walton

When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you. — Ilona Andrews

She felt the snake between her breasts, felt him there, and loved him there, coiled, the deep tumescent S held rigid, ready to strike. She loved the way the snake looked sewn onto her V-neck letter sweater, his hard diamondback pattern shining in the sun. It was unseasonably hot, almost sixty degrees, for early November in Mystic, Georgia, and she could smell the light musk of her own sweat. She liked the sweat, liked the way it felt, slick as oil, in all the joints of her body, her bones, in the firm sliding muscles, tensed and locked now, ready to spring
to strike
when the band behind her fired up the school song: "Fight On Deadly Rattlers of Old Mystic High."
Harry Crews- A Feast of Snakes — Harry Crews

I like high impact movies. — Kathryn Bigelow

I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting. — Avery Sawyer

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art. — Robert Schumann

Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation itself which none but an Almighty Power could make? For the Bible says one thing; and the creation says the contrary. The Bible represents God with all the passions of a mortal, and the creation proclaims him with all the attributes of a God. — Thomas Paine

Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry. — Luke Evans

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted. — L.M. Montgomery

Where music is heard can determine the sort of music created by the artists who perform there. — David Byrne

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel