Katiya Thedirtyrussian Quotes & Sayings

Set great expectations for yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When Debbie was fourteen, she felt "impressed by the Lord" to marry Ray Blackmore, the community leader. Debbie asked her father to share her divine impression with Prophet LeRoy Johnson, who would periodically travel to Bountiful from Short Creek to perform various religious duties. Because Debbie was lithe and beautiful, Uncle Roy approved of the match. A year later the prophet returned to Canada and married her to the ailing fifty-seven-year-old Blackmore. As his sixth wife, Debbie became a stepmother to Blackmore's thirty-one kids, most of whom were older than she was. And because he happened to be the father of Debbie's own stepmother, Mem, she unwittingly became a stepmother to her stepmother, and thus a step grandmother to herself. — Jon Krakauer

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do. — Dolly Parton

Blessings are just curses that other people envy. — Jonathan Safran Foer

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell. — Rita Mae Brown

I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.
I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.
I dreamed
and this dream was the finest
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you. — Clive Barker

Memories are fragile; they can be broken and forgotten or preserved like a tomb. — Tony Conte

NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil. — Marilyn Manson

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime. — Laura Miller

Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him. — Graham Greene

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it. — Giada De Laurentiis

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. — Lou Reed

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience. — Ogwo David Emenike

It was all very purposeful and sad when Anthony told Gloria one night that he wanted, above all things, to be killed. But, as always, they were sorry for each other for the wrong things at the wrong time ... — F Scott Fitzgerald