Lastimado In English Translation Quotes & Sayings

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds. — Theodore Dreiser

The Russians are a little stronger, but they excel at the basics. Lock the hands, bear hugs, takedowns, riding are all strong points for them, whereas Americans tend to have more finesse and take more risks. They might let you up in order to hit something else, and that's completely different from the Russian approach. — Gilbert Melendez

What does it mean to identify with a literary character? I thought I knew, but did I really? Does it simply mean putting yourself in their place? Obviously not. Or approving of their actions? But we're happy to identify with bad characters, given the right encouragement. No, the best I could come up with was that it seemed to be a kind of in-between state - you're somehow them and not them at the same time - that can't exactly be put into words. — William Deresiewicz

The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice. — John Nichol

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. — Michael J. Gelb

prevaricated. He was cagey not just about his own whereabouts, — Sharon Hendry

The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth. — Edward E. Baptist

I don't work Sunday any more ... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death. — Alan Furst

It's hard to hear others when your own words overwhelm your thoughts. — Heather Lyons