Keenes Quotes & Sayings

In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be. — Monica Drake

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell. — Carrie Fisher

I am not ready to back away from my views. — Alexei Navalny

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security. — Lech Walesa

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all — Socrates

Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kid grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground. — Gillian Flynn

I thought that if I loved you hard enough, I could move mountains for you; I could make you fly. It didn't matter to me how that happened - just as long as it did. I wasn't thinking of who I might hurt, only who I could rescue. — Jodi Picoult

When you embrace the darkness within, you will always live in the light. — Joseph D'Lacey

Could my problem have been that I was looking for validation in the wrong places all along? — Liz Prince

When everything in my gut is telling me it's right, how can it be wrong? — Gretchen De La O

But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in [God] but in myself and his other creatures — Augustine Of Hippo

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity. — Diane Ackerman