Matarangas Quotes & Sayings

When at last he came to his decision, it seemed to him that he had known all along what it would be. — John Edward Williams

At the essential landscape stare, stare
Till your eyes foist a vision dazzling on the wind:
Whatever lost ghosts flare,
Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor
Rave on the leash of the starving mind
Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air. — Sylvia Plath

The compulsion to include everything, leaving nothing out, does not prove that one has unlimited information; it proves that one lacks discrimination. — Sharon Aaronson

At one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the empty rooms. But then we never did. Oh, for the countless things one fails to do! — W.G. Sebald

Stupid Jimmy Ferris and his amazing mouth and penis. Who needed him? Not me, I could look after myself. — Kylie Scott

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. — Madeleine L'Engle

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. — Faith Baldwin

Sir, the nation is tense," said Cliff gravely. " It is asking itself how it can possibly stand idly by drinking gourmet coffee when an entire race is about to be disassembled. It wants to Enjoy, yes, but it feels it won't be able to fully Enjoy until some other closure is reached. — George Saunders

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I am less likely to deny my suffering when I learn how God uses it to mold me and draw me closer to him. I will be less likely to see my pains as interruptions to my plans and more able to see them as the means for God to make me ready to receive him. I let Christ live near my hurts and distractions. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. — Barack Obama

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key. — David Levithan

Shut the door when you're finished being in my business, I said, resting my head next to Abby's. — Jamie McGuire

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular — Richard Steele