Kalafel Quotes & Sayings

These final hours until Aelyx's departure were no more or less important than the millions of other hours they would share over a lifetime. — Melissa Landers

In the end I knew I would have to trust to instinct, not estimates. — May Sarton

One man is not enough. — Heather Locklear

The town was sunk in a kind of crystal ball; everyone seemed to be asleep (transcendentally asleep!) no matter if they were walking or sitting outside. Around five the sky clouded over and at six it began to rain. The streets cleared all at once. I had the thought that if it was as if autumn had unsheathed a claw and scratched: everything was coming apart. The tourists running on the sidewalks in search of shelter, the shopkeepers pulling tarps over the merchandise displayed in the street, the increasing number of shop windows closed until next summer. Whether I felt pity or scorn when I saw this, I don't know. Detached from any external stimulus, the only thing I could see or feel with any clarity was myself. Everything else had been bombarded by something dark; movie sets consigned to dust and oblivion, as if for good. — Roberto Bolano

I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings. — Sheri L. Dew

I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating. — Claudia Rankine

I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology. — Timothy Leary

Isn't that ... isn't that what friends do? They change our perspective on the world. Part of why we care about them is because we love that feeling. The feeling of being changed. — Marie Rutkoski

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing — Marty Rubin

Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more
also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth. — Andrea Dworkin

Drea, believe and follow your heart, Remember that the choices you made will lead you to your destiny. — Josie Zapanta Stewart

A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader. — Suzy Kassem

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth? — Simon Bolivar