Marushka Doll Quotes & Sayings

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.' — Miranda July

Sadness is a moment
in which the world took something
from you.
Depression is a lifetime
of torment
no matter what is said or done. — A.P. Sweet

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. — Herbert Read

I don't come out of an oral tradition, I come out of silence. — Colm Toibin

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action. — Bell Hooks

Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This
the actual pistols
was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us. — William Faulkner

We're not looking for any particular experience, for the breath or the body to be a special way. Rather, we're simply listening to, being aware of, and receiving the contact of whatever presents itself. — Anonymous

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. — Louis Farrakhan

For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it. — E. Nesbit

Cut Men's throats with whisperings. — Ben Jonson

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands. — Mark Shand

I fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was. — Harry Truman

You're not like most of them, are you?" Prince Baldair's voice was softer than she had heard it before, the jest and levity absent. "Most of them?" she repeated, bracing herself for a parrot comment. "You're not the first low-born I have invited to lunch." He leaned back in his chair, food forgotten. "They come in, swoon over my chambers, prattle about the food endlessly, try everything they can to make eyes at me. By the end of it all, they're belly up and bare on the bed. — Elise Kova