Keisha Byfield Quotes & Sayings

How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one. — Jonathan Franzen

Like any collectable of any real value, it's priceless to the right owner" -Mr. Simmons — Tara Altebrando

Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking — Ally Carter

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. — Aaron Huey

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument. — Robert Frost

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others. — Jack Zipes

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses. — Anne Lamott

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. — P. J. O'Rourke

You can beat anybody, Wayne always said, so long as you don't let them fight back properly. — Brandon Sanderson

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart. — Shams Tabrizi

everyone wants perfect love... no one wants to be a perfect lover... — Brijesh Singh

Give something of yourself to everyone, but never everything to someone. — Adish

Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on. — Kristen Ashley

Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak. — William Powell