Khidmat Quotes & Sayings

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books. — Betsy Lerner

The course of one's life is a difficult thing."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata

She could feel the hole inside her where her heart had been. — George R R Martin

Before you step into what if, you have to get past if only. — Mark Batterson

We cannot make good news out of bad practice. — Edward R. Murrow

For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know. — Jayne Ann Krentz

I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no room in the air. — David Levithan

I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball's greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself ... Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game. — Ford Frick

Love, like energy, never dies. You lose people only in the moment. But time is a long road that circles back. At some point the missing turns into love and returns. — M.J. Rose