Marmelat Quotes & Sayings

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it? — Pablo Neruda

These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios. — Guity Novin

I was meant to land wherever he settled, like the ocean washing seashells onto the shore. Jack was the shell, in constant motion and movement, being tossed around from place to place by the ebb and flow of something more powerful than he. And I was the sand, gripping and holding on to him, comforting his tumble with each push and pull of the tide, yet always constant. When I walked into the waiting — J. Sterling

I dreamt of your legs that night. I dreamt they were wrapped around my back while I f**ked your brains out. — Samantha Young

Every journey we take requires a good pair of wellingtons because there are some thorns and puddles along the way. — Euginia Herlihy

There were impressive stone paths and benches and even a statue of an angel that gave Simon nervous fits, since he was a Doctor Who fan. The angel wasn't weeping, exactly, but it looked too depressed for Simon's liking. — Cassandra Clare

Sometimes you weren't yet the person you needed to be to do the work you needed to do. — Garth Risk Hallberg

A persistent preoccupation with "freedom of speech" to the neglect of other freedoms can diminish the shelter available for religion and other precious freedoms. The intertwining of all our freedoms is greater than we realize ... It may be true ... that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah had absolute free speech, but did they have anything worth saying? — Neal A. Maxwell

Fuck me," said Roger. He spit a mouthful of stomach acid into the hall and looked at the bodies. "Look at the old man, going all Bruce Willis on us. — Peter Clines

You can't follow another actor's performance. You can't be Robert DeNiro, because you're not Robert DeNiro, and, you know, he is. — Sean Bean

The final state of affairs may not have been foreseen. Perhaps we are merely reading a plan into the world after the fact. — B.F. Skinner

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa? — Marion Barry

Symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him. — Joseph Heller

Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond. — Angelica Hopes