Malefaction Dragon Quotes & Sayings

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line. — Kristin Hannah

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. — Emma Goldman

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door. — Cassandra Clare

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits. — Joseph Addison

I'm giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do. — Jojo Moyes

Our midnight feasts aren't so much 'lashings of ginger beer' as 'whatever booze we can smuggle in'. — Cat Clarke

Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by. — Austin Kleon

If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me. — Douglas Adams

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito ... — Sherman Alexie

You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will invite disaster and so if you practice optimism it may increase your feelings of vulnerability. The trick is to increase your tolerance for vulnerable feelings, rather than avoid them altogether.
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Optimism does not mean continual happiness, glazed eyes and a fixed grin. When I talk about the desirability of optimism I do not mean that we should delude ourselves about reality. But practicing optimism does mean focusing more on the positive fall-out of an event than on the negative. ... I am not advocating the kind of optimism that means you blow all your savings on a horse running at a hundred to one; I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers. — Philippa Perry

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. — Herman Melville

She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment. — Ayn Rand

We by art unteach what Nature taught. — John Dryden