Kickinger Tree Quotes & Sayings

You're like some wild bird, aren't you? Batting its wings and flying against the cage door. Even if it hurts you. Even if it kills you. You won't stop. Even if on one is out to hurt you, you wont stop." He tucks a strand of hair behind my ear, and I flinch at the brush of his fingers on my skin.
I shrug, slap at his hand "So what? You just described everyone in here. All of us."
"No, the rest of us will keep to this cage. It's protection from the dangers outside. In here, we have shelter. Freedom. Each other. We wait for the door to open, and when its safe, only then do we go out. You? You don't care as long as you're gone. Away from the rest of us. — Sophie Jordan

Till our next date?"
"Oh, yeah," he says, making a "well, duh" face. "All bets are off on our next date. — Kelley R. Martin

Be authentic. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You'll hate yourself for it & the effort to maintain the facade will exhaust you. BE REAL! Many won't like the real you but that's better than having people adore the person that isn't you at all — Larry Winget

I love, love, love Michael Jackson. — Amber Riley

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders. — Malcolm Gladwell

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away ... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly ... disappear. — Ahmet Ertegun

But that did not stop her heart from shattering into countless pieces or her soul from shredding into slivers. — Farrah Naseem

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends. — Jenny Lawson

There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker. — Jonathan Meades

London. For some reason the word didn't seem to have the magic, warm, sound of home that it had always had. — Karen Schwabach

Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world. — Mark Lawrence

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic. — Raymond E. Feist

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult. — Tim Kaine

There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here. — Helen Thompson Woolley