Maclaverty Midwinter Quotes & Sayings

What do you want?' Maura asked. 'Not out of college. Out of life.'
Blue swallowed the truth once, because she was ready to move from crisis to crying to solutions and stability. Then she said the truth slowly and carefully, so that it would be manageable. 'What I always wanted. To see the world. To make it better. — Maggie Stiefvater

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity. — Orlando Bloom

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself. — Edward Hirsch

When I was a stripper I realized that men and women are equally fucked over about sex but in such different areas, we're blind to the other's pain. So for certain kinds of guys, women are heartless bitches and cock teases and will bleed you dry before giving you a kiss. And for some women, men are asshole jerks who only want one thing. They'll love you and leave you. I don't see it that way. It's the culture keeping them equally ignorant and feeding them nonsense. And then saying, go of and get married! — Nina Hartley

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A riddle wrapped up in an enigma, wrapped up in a giant pain in the ass. Well done, Kami. — Sarah Rees Brennan

The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice ... all ordinances would be stopped ... many men would be made prisoners ... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write ... — John Andreas Widtsoe

But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the administrators of the health-care centers where abortions are performed. In this sense abortion goes beyond the responsibility of individuals and beyond the harm done to them, and takes on a distinctly social dimension. It is a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be societys promoters and defenders. — Pope John Paul II

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing. — Jens Lekman

As Jane stared at Vishous and felt his body against hers, she knew she was never letting him go. Ever. And she also knew that if they could make it through the past week, they had the staying power that good marriages - or matings - required. — J.R. Ward

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills. — A.B. Simpson

The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live. — Dean Norris