Matthews Old African Quotes & Sayings

My earth is somebody's ceiling — Sara Bareilles

( ... ) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree. — Alexandre Dumas

As I sat alone at my desk in the dark, I thought about suicide. Sometimes I did that, thought about suicide, though not in an active way - it was more like pulling a lucky stone out of your back pocket. It was a comforting thing to have with you, so you could rub your fingers over it, reassure yourself that it was there if you needed it. I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood and the hysterical parents and the guilt, any of it. But sometimes I liked the idea of simply not having to be here anymore, not having to deal with my life. As if death could be just an extended vacation.
But now what I thought about suicide was this: If I died tonight, everyone would believe this journal was true.
Like Amelia, Chava, and Sally, everyone would forever believe that I had written that diary. Everyone would believe they knew how I "really felt." And how dare they? — Leila Sales

ITS EASY TO HATE BUT HARD TO LOVE — QHUBEKANI NCUBE

Part of my therapy is to write. — LeAnn Rimes

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others. — George Eliot

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron

Are ye hungry?" she asked, her voice soothing.
His stomach growled. "I could cut the heart out of a stag and eat it raw."
She chuckled. "Fortunately, we do no' have to go to such extremes. — Amy Jarecki

The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep — J. Paul Getty

It didn't seem fair, but then, a lot of things aren't. We take them as they come. — Louis L'Amour

When you are willing to be everything that you are, you become an infinitely creative source for everything in your life - including money. — Simone Milasas

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority. — Abraham Lincoln

I kind of took you for granted. Your love for me was permanent. Why should I have worried about losing you? — Piper Shelly

Death is something ancient, but it comes fresh to each of us. — Ivan Turgenev

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention. — Caitlin Flanagan