Kinvara Quotes & Sayings

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn't bear to think of him loving her less. — Rainbow Rowell

Life is full of tough choices, indeed. — Christian Andersen

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game. — Michel Patini

Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus] — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Despite the landlord's disapproval, the sweltering heat, the gloomy rooms, and the cacophony of strange noises, so unfamiliar to my country ears, I felt another swell of hope. As I looked around our four rooms, it did seem that we were off to a fresh start, having left behind the many hardships of life in Kinvara: the damp that sank into our bones, the miserable, cramped hut, our father's drinking - did I mention that? - that threw every small gain into peril. Here, our da had the promise of a job. We could pull a chain for light; the twist of a knob brought running water. Just outside the door, in a dry hallway, a toilet and bathtub. However modest, this was a chance for a new beginning. — Christina Baker Kline

Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing. — Amy Alznauer

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain. — Nick Davies

In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. We shared traditions and a way of looking at the world. We didn't know until we left how much we took those things for granted. — Christina Baker Kline

You can't have a decent party for the survivors of a deadly blast without inviting the person who detonated the explosion. — Anthony Rubino Jr.

Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference." — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Shaw writes as if it were always midday. — Mason Cooley

O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear! — Thomas Haynes Bayly