Kamarah Westbrook Quotes & Sayings

To tell a story is to take power over it. — Mark Doty

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose
the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I just wanted to be an ordinary girl, married to a man who would provide me with a municipal tap, and three meals a day, while I cooked and cleaned for him. — Rasana Atreya

Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat? — Julie Kagawa

Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meaning: Beyond that, your dreams have to die. Then your expectations. And your anger about investing a lifetime in learning shit and loving people and earning money, only to have all that crap come to basically nothing. Really, your physical body dying is the easy part. Beyond that, your memories must die. And your ego. Your pride and shame and ambition and hope, all that Personal Identity Crap can take centuries to expire. — Chuck Palahniuk

Feel the joy of life when you cry,
when you smile, love or feel shy. — Debasish Mridha

Procrastinate strategically ... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity. — Adam Grant

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage. — Craig Stone

I cannot change the people around me, but I can change what kind of people are around me. — Kambiz Shabankareh

I don't know how much longer I have to know you. — Lisa Genova

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. — Helen Gurley Brown

~Posters with torn edges hanging from rotten walls~

The doctor told me something once
she said
STOP DRINKING
I slapped her across the face with this
NO
I walked right out of that office
went right down to the hole
I told the bartender
WHISKEY, MOTHERFUCKER
he poured and he poured
and I slapped my money down on that bar
the man I had been driving around with
he just sort of sat there next to this hooker
she probably had something rotten
way down there between her legs
her eyes told of no soul
I emptied the bottle down my throat
and ordered some chips
the bartender told me
THEY'RE STALE
and I give him a
I DON'T FUCKIN' CARE,
GIVE ME SOMETHIN'
He slid me a ham sandwich dripping with cheap low-fat mayo and said
ENJOY
I went back to my room
and talked all night
so much conversation
it turned the toilet bowl pale — Dave Matthes

Christ died"
that is history; "Christ died for our sins"
that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity. — J. Gresham Machen

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. — James Kern Feibleman