Marielena Novela Quotes & Sayings

Fate doesn't guarantee us a happy ending. We're not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn't some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance. — Claudia Gray

In the future, you'll live astride the line separating life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them. You'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgement falls away, and there remains the miracle of being. — Rana Dasgupta

There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board. — A.S. Byatt

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary? — Nazim Hikmet

The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched. — Bruce Sterling

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! — Rupert Friend

I'd lost something I never knew I'd had. — Lee Child

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, I'm getting even — Art Buchwald

Cultural power is glacial. It moves slowly but with great force. — Amit Khanna

Always resemble yourself. — Cynthia White

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard. Some will say if you ask them: "Well - well - well, I, - I hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am? — Dwight L. Moody