Lagrotta Quotes & Sayings

Whenever someone says some- thing about us, it gets written inside us, permanently. The good words, the ugly words, it's all right here." I placed a palm against my chest. "Sure, you can scribble out the words or try to paint over them, but beneath the layers of paint and ink, they're still there, branded to our cores like initials carved in a tree. — Cole Gibsen

Neuroticism, or the tendency to be anxious, stressed, critical, and moody, is far more predictive of relationship unhappiness and dissolution than is personality dissimilarity. While personality similarity can help the years run smoothly, any two people will be different in some way or another. How a person responds to these differences can be more important than the differences themselves. To a person who runs high in Neuroticism, differences are seen in a negative light. Anxiety and judgments about these differences then lead to criticism and contempt, two leading relationship killers. — Meg Jay

Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become. — Connie Zweig

In this place you never know what pile of shit tomorrow is going to hand you, so having something that makes you feel good for even a second needs to be valued. — Jay Crownover

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. — Arthur Erickson

Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would. — Roshani Chokshi

A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves. — Caitlin Doughty

The soul that complemented mine. My match. My equal. — Richelle Mead

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.' — Orhan Pamuk

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. — Truman Capote

When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results. — Steven J. Lawson

May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government ... All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson