Malavita Burton Quotes & Sayings

Truth is exclusive of non-truth; there is no way around that. — Karla Perry

no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon - aka Yawnsville, USA - as their point of first contact. — Ernest Cline

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. — Philip Roth

The north of peacebuilding is best articulated as finding our way toward becoming and being local and global human communities characterized by respect, dignity, fairness, cooperation, and the nonviolent resolution of conflict. To understand this north, to read such a compass, requires that we recognize and develop our moral imagination far more intentionally. — John Paul Lederach

Real love comes with strings you tie yourself. — Abby Gaines

Landscape is metaphor / and only metaphor. But, oh, I have loved it so. — William Bronk

The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less I'll be troubled by that. I'll probably just become more myself. — Helen Oyeyemi

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters. — Mason Cooley

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act. — Tom Robbins

Take nothing and no one for granted. Time used to be my friend, and now it's a skittish acquaintance at best.
Let life unfold, say what you mean. You can't always think about what you've lost, or what you don't have, or what you didn't get. Because when you do that, you're missing out on the now. You can't know if you'll be here tomorrow or a year from now. — Adriana Trigiani

The night is the means by which we find our heart's desire, our freedom for love. This is not to say that all darkness — Gerald G. May

For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured. — Julie Murphy