Lanzas New York Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever paused to be Grateful? For eyes to see, nose to smell, ears to hear, tongue to taste, hands to feel, head to think and heart to love?-RVM — R.v.m.

When I was a kid, I used to wonder (I bet everyone did) whether there was somebody somewhere on the earth, or even in the universe, or ever had been in all of time, who had had exactly the same experience that I was having at that moment, and I hoped so badly that there was. But I realized then that could never occur, because every moment is all the things that are going to happen, and every moment is just the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line. And I thought how maybe once there was, say, a princess who lost her mother's ring in a forest, and how in some other galaxy a strange creature might fall, screaming, on the shore of a red lake, and how right at that second there could be a man standing at a window overlooking a busy street, aiming a loaded revolver, but how it was just me, there, after Chris, staring at that turtle in the fourth-grade room and wondering if it would die before I stopped being able to see it. — Deborah Eisenberg

I would not care whether people thought I was special, if my life was truly special. It would not mater to me that people could see me as pious, if I could truly live as a woman scholar of piety. I want to be what I seem to be. I act as if I am specially holy, a special girl; but this is what I really want to be. I really do. — Philippa Gregory

Abusers drive wedges between people, by accident or by design. — Lundy Bancroft

She shrugged."I always put in long hours. I really wanted a wife."
He leaned toward her."Jilliam, honey, The whole world wants a wife. But we're gonna have to make do ... — Robyn Carr

He just wanted to see it. From afar. To see what might have been, what he was glad hadn't been. But maybe should have been. — Julia Quinn

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career. — Mystikal

I don't know who to trust." Clay nodded and leaned his forehead against mine. "I'll stand with you, always. — Melissa Haag

Evil lives in the dark. We instinctively know it as children, but as we grow older we allow reason to cloud our judgement — Charity Parkerson