Latika Bourke Quotes & Sayings

I had been asked: Tell us "just exactly" what happened. A story? I began: I am not learned; I am not ignorant. I have known joys. That is saying too little. I told them the whole story, and they listened, it seems to me, with interest, at least in the beginning. But the end was a surprise to all of us. "That was the beginning,"they said. "Now get down to the facts." How so? The story was over!* — Maurice Blanchot

It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe. — V.C. Andrews

Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days. — Alyson Noel

Life is a transient phenomenon with eternal reflection. — Debasish Mridha

A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words, — Susan Sontag

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread. — Saul Bellow

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. — Nick Johnson

As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button. — Nancy Farmer

He could not return to living full-time with the Dursleys, not now that he knew the other world, the one to which he really belonged. — J.K. Rowling

I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role. — Bob Ainsworth

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool. — Max Cannon