Leslie Parrish Books Quotes & Sayings

I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being. — Suzanne Collins

She closed her eyes briefly, feeling sick. Olivia had experienced strangulation before. Having to look directly into the face of the person who was killing you made the experience beyond awful. But there were worse things than that. Staring into the void of unresolved memory, living an eternal mystery, waking up night after night seeing the face of someone you desperately wanted to save but having not the slightest clue how to do it - all that was worse. If going through with this experience gave her the answers she needed, if it gave her peace, it would be well worth one-hundred-and-thirty seconds of fear and pain. — Leslie Parrish

You basically only discover a new thing once. — Urs Fischer

Remember the first time your dad tried to teach you to drive on ice? How when the car started to slide you had to turn into the side while every nerve in your body said to turn the other way? I think life is like that a lot, way more than we know. And I think love is particularly like that. We think we're supposed to fight for it when we're really supposed to let go; you know, turn into it. — Chris Crutcher

She told him.
And watched the man go from determined cop to utterly enraged lover. — Leslie Parrish

sort. That gave me one hour and eighteen minutes to — Julia Kent

I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me. — Kaki King

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. — Grace Abbott

I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don't party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I'm the most boring person at a party. — Esha Gupta

My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet. — Stephen Malkmus

I think that one who has received a kindness ought to remember it all his life; but that the doer of the kindness should forget it once for all; if the former is to behave like a good man, the latter like one free from all meanness. To be always recalling and speaking of one's own benefactions is almost like upbraiding the recipients of them. — Demosthenes

'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone. — Rachel Platten

I love good momentum. It makes everybody happy and in this time that we're living in, especially musically speaking, if you can make a record that has more than 4 or 5 songs deep and it has a good variety of songs. You don't frontload it with those first couple of songs. You continue the record taking the listener on a journey, musically speaking. I think you've really got something there. — Charlie Benante

Things are not real, but they are the reflection of our imaginations and perceptions. — Debasish Mridha

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful. — Drew Barrymore

I'm not asking for anything beyond your company in sleep. Just let me rest with the sound of your heartbeat beside mine. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The sand has rules. Fucked up rules, but rules nonetheless. — Kameron Hurley