Kervyn Altaffer Quotes & Sayings

Desires are already memories. — Italo Calvino

I grabbed the lapels of his coat, tears filling my eyes. "Don't tell me this is all happening for a reason ... Or that it's going to be okay. Don't tell me you're ready to die." ...
He met my gave, his blue eyes steady, "It's not going to be okay." He brushed hair back from my cheeks and cupped my face in his rough hands. "None of this is happening for a reason." He skimmed his lips over mine. "And Saints help me, Alina, I want to live forever."
He kissed me again, and this time, he didn't stop — Leigh Bardugo

When a marriage works, it is in no small part because a woman and a man have come to recognize in precise measure when enough has been said. — Laurence Shames

The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear. — Debasish Mridha

She tugged warningly on his shirt. "I am serious! Are you going to marry me, Sean? Finally?"

He smiled, and the light of his smile filled his eyes. "Damn it, Elle! Will you not let me take the lead? Ladies do not propose marriage!"

~Sean O'Neill & Eleanor de Warenne — Brenda Joyce

She had witnessed a conflict between two men who held her liberty in their hands, her very life and that of her child; one had sought to drag her deeper into darkness, the other to restore her to light. The two contestants, in the heightened vision of her terror, had seemed like giants, one speaking with the voice of a demon, the other in the tones of an angel. The angel had won, and what caused her to tremble from head to foot was the fact that this rescuing angel was the man she abhorred, the abominable mayor whom for so long she had regarded as the author of her troubles. He had saved her after she had most outrageously insulted him! — Victor Hugo

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. — Horace Mann

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus

Logically speaking," he said lightly, "the idea that you hired someone to attack me doesn't make much sense. I'm not sure what your motive would be."
"I could have wanted to put an end to the rumors."
"That would be a shame. I like the rumors. — Marie Rutkoski

I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages. — Tom Verica

gazed at his destination in the valley below. If not for the smoke curling from its chimney, he might think the cabin abandoned. Agreeing to this was the stupidest thing he'd ever done. How on earth had he been talked into it? At the time, delivering the news to Nathan's wife hadn't seemed like much. He was heading to Cheyenne anyway. The — Caroline Fyffe

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro. — Natalie Coughlin

Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists. — Jon Favreau

Once the divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith. — Barbara W. Tuchman