Kouretas Ventures Quotes & Sayings

Basically my relationship with evangelicalism is like a Taylor Swift song set to repeat. — Rachel Held Evans

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion. — Edward Gibbon

Do I realize solemnly enough how utterly and irretrievably this little womanly thing is the creature of my good or bad faith and fortune? I think not. I think I could not, unless I were a woman myself. What I am in worldly estate, she is. What I become, she must become. What I cannot be, she cannot be. And shall I ever neglect her, or hurt her, or even forget to consider her? God forbid such a crime! — Thomas Hardy

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. — Nicholas Sparks

A fool despises his father's instruction,
But he who receives correction is prudent. — King Solomon

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. — Mo Yan

E was the only one in the world who understood the secret living thing that dwelt in he pit of my stomach ... the thing that reared its head from time to time to sear my insides with fear. — Belle Whittington

Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels. — Mercedes M. Yardley

I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe. — Maggie Stiefvater

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen