Kidslit Quotes & Sayings

Her eyes seemed to promise a spirit forever capsized in the diseased waters of regret. — Marcel Proust

I want shade, I want shade and anonymity.
from "The Departure — Clarice Lispector

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world. — Pema Chodron

Knowing the sin in this world's grandest depravity. — Sorin Cerin

Because there's nothing like the feel of a woman's body under mine, all tight and hot and wet as she slowly comes apart. — Anne Calhoun

There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise. The tiger-striped, the ring-tailed, and the ones with matching coloured socks and mittens. There were tabbies and calicos. Manx and Persians. Siamese and Bombay. Ragdolls and Birmans. Maine Coons and Russian Blues. There were Snowshoes and Somalis, Tonkinese and Turkish, and many, many more. Brown and beige and orange and grey and black and white and silver cats, each with gleaming eyes of emerald, or sapphire, or amber. A rainbow of precious stones. — Brooke Burgess

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion. — Orhan Pamuk

Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion. — Sharon Salzberg

A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear — Jackie Kennedy

I like audacious ideas. — Gregory Benford

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. — Errol Flynn