Marshana Ali Quotes & Sayings

She wanted to have him hold her and tell her all the demons were pretend, that there was no monster in her closet, that everything would be okay. But that was a lie. The demon was in her head, telling her she was too fat. She had to get the demon out. But she couldn't do it by herself. — Jackie Morse Kessler

I wanted to become courageous so I started to accept everything with kindness. — Debasish Mridha

I brushed the curtain aside, scowling. Hadn't even spoken to the girl and I felt like a stalker staring out the window, waiting once more ... waiting for what? To catch a glimpse of her? Or to better prepare myself for the inevitable meeting?
If Dee saw me now, she'd be on the floor laughing.
And if Ash saw me right now, she'd scratch out my eyes and blast my new neighbor into outer space. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd. — Anna Louise Strong

Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower. — William Allingham

I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent. — Thomas Jefferson

What did one saggy boob say to the other? We better perk up or somebody is going to think we're nuts. — Kyung-Sook Shin

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. — Howard Nemerov

Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you're not an 'aspiring' photographer, you're not an 'amazing' photographer either. You're a photographer. Don't get cute. Don't brag. Just state the facts. — Austin Kleon

He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in. — Henry James

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it. — Viktor E. Frankl

The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities. — Alastair Reynolds

Come back to me. You need me. He says, Go and sin no more (John 8:11), — Jennie Allen

Alchemy: In times of recession it's not wise to argue about the price of gold. — Robin Sacredfire

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can. — Roger Federer