La Pietra School Quotes & Sayings

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other. — Charles De Lint

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver. — Michelle Kwan

Success has always been a great liar — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's hard to love a woman and do anything. — Leo Tolstoy

To feel at home, stay at home. — Clifton Fadiman

He was one of those idealistic Russian beings who are suddenly struck by some powerful idea and immediately, then and there, seem to be crushed by it, even sometimes permanently. They are never equipped to deal with it, and instead come to believe in it passionately, and so their entire life from then on passes in its final throes, as it were, under the stone that has fallen upon them and already crushed them half to death. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Darryl does talk," Skylar said. "If you listen. And FYI, I have a really strong feeling that he's going to be the next Bill Gates, so you might want to be a little nicer to him."
"I have a really strong feeling," Bethany deadpanned, "that if you don't tell me what's on that USB drive, I will end you. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Words are important. Words shaper our perceptions. When they define, they can also distort. There is a far better way to describe this man whose face is the most human face of all. Jesus is beautiful. — John Eldredge

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are. — David Doubilet

The only thing we got to keep were our memories, and now I was about to take those from him, too.
"Close your eyes," I whispered. "I' going to finish the story. — Alexandra Bracken

If I want to watch men dig holes to fall into, I'll find myself a cemetery. — Leigh Bardugo