Leroen Quotes & Sayings

I had less control over my thoughts than I'd have liked. The little ring hung around my neck, under my gown, where nobody could see it. When I was alone, I took it out sometimes, wondering how he had judged the size, with nothing but my swollen, knotted fingers to go by. Wondering if my hands would ever be as they once were, small, white, and fine. By the time that happened, if it ever did, I would be long gone from here. I would have left behind both husband and wedding ring. It mattered little whether the size were right or no. Yet, when I thought this, I found my hand closing around the ring as if I did not want to let it go. It's mine, something inside me would say. — Juliet Marillier

Worry is a habit that shatters our peace of mind and needlessly drains our energy, a form of mental masturbation without any benefits. — Sue Patton Thoele

I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start. — Alan Kotok

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves. — Chris Cleave

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint. — Henry Ward Beecher

At night in this waterless air the stars come down just out of reach of your fingers. — John Steinbeck

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about. — Christopher Walken

Roth was irritated. Just because he was a Jew too, they always assumed he felt the same way about things. It made him feel a little frustrated. No doubt some of his bad luck had come because he was one, but that was unfair; it wasn't as if he took an interest, it was just an accident of birth. — Norman Mailer

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter — Michael Gurian

The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage. — Barbara Kingsolver

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes. — Terry Pratchett

I used to work out on an island called Martha's Vineyard. I ran a pizza oven, I caddied, I worked on a fishing boat, and life is very easy out there. It's a vacation lifestyle all the time. — Austin Stowell