Local Pidgin Quotes & Sayings

That's the thing about taste: It's rarely shared. — Suzanne Rindell

Waiting for Prince Charming?"
"Aren't all women? And you're waiting for Cinderella."
"Actually," Jared said slowly, "I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun. — Jude Deveraux

That's ill-advised. More, it's puerile. — Rex Stout

The charred smell came, he assumed, from the pages themselves, burning away invisibly as they had for years in the Impetus vault in New York. Eventually they would crumble and be lost to the world, if they weren't thrown away first. For today, though, they were his to inhale and get lost in. — Jonathan Galassi

Sometimes, when he looks at me, I can swear something in him has changed. The glances are more intense, his eyes seem molten and charged. Sexual.
And I like it. I love it. I want it. I want there to be this change, for this to be a thing because then maybe, maybe I would act on it. Maybe I would take that chance and turn him into something more than a friend. — Karina Halle

Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly. — Cherie Carter-Scott

It's very difficult to know when you're crossing the boundary. I hate the word boundary because I never think about it when taking a picture. Very often it doesn't mean anything because it depends on who's looking at the picture more than the content of the picture itself. — Carine Roitfeld

Somebody'd better pray for him, don't you think? He IS a lost soul.
~Pastor John Linton — Janet Sketchley

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends. — Van Jones

Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on. — Assegid Habtewold

Every soul has a past
Every soul lives a present
And every soul deserve a future
no judging on one's past
because its might be your future — Hlovate

1/10 I think I have made a friend. A woman named Malun. She came by today with some lovely little coconut shell drinking cups for us, a few cooking pots, & a full bilum bag of yams & smoked fish. She speaks several local languages but only a small bit of pidgin so we mostly flapped our arms and laughed. She is older, past childbearing, head shaved like all married women here, muscular & stern until she breaks into giggles which seem against her strong will. By the end of the visit she was trying on my shoes. — Lily King

They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away ... I disagree ... I say a part of you lives with your Loved One on the other side. — Daniel Yanez

If you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot. — Neale Donald Walsch