Kitty Norville Quotes & Sayings

Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong. — Kevin DeYoung

One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing. — Nhat Hanh

I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable. — Enoch Powell

If you're going to bloody the human, would you be good enough to do it in the backyard? — J.R. Ward

Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of new knowledge, big or small. Such gems can be anyone's. — Rob Dunn

Loneliness is watching the only girl you've ever loved find happiness in the arms of another man. — Winter Renshaw

Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God. — Edward T. Welch

The problem with trying to find your happiness through avoidance is the nature of reality. Reality simply does not allow us to evade unwanted experiences. Sure, we might be able to escape a few {...] but the evasive life often comes at a cost, like having to live your life in terror. Even if we can successfully ward off some terrifying experiences, we can not advert them all. Particularly, the most unpleasant ones: sickness, old age and death. If our strategy has been to flea unpleasant circumstances, when they come to meet us - as they surely will - our suffering will be great indeed. — Mark W. Muesse

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy. — Sam Trammell

I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us. — Sarah Dessen

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. — Don Marquis

You only get married the first time once. There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence — Carrie Vaughn

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time. — Chuck Palahniuk

I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express. — Meryl Streep

When a condition or situation that the mind has attached itself to and identified with changes or disappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were being torn off your body. — Eckhart Tolle

I think we are here to make the world a better place then we found it. I think we do not always deserve the cards that we are dealt-good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we are dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good-we just have to work a little more is all. There is no destiny. There is just muddling through without doing too much damage.
Kitty Norville — Carrie Vaughn