Mauvini Quotes & Sayings

Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all tangles and risks everything. Intellect is always cautious and advises, 'Beware too much ecstasy,' whereas love says, 'Oh, never mind! Take the plunge!' Intellect does not easily break down, whereas love can effortlessly reduce itself to rubble. But treasures are hidden among ruins. A broken heart hides treasures. — Elif Shafak

Kate's stomach trembled with that particular anxiety that always heralded something good. — Sarah Addison Allen

Fortunately the City is vigilant. It too has its secret weapons. Since the summer it has released safety valves that form part of a wonderful mechanism, known only to itself. For the past three months we've noticed the most heartening appearance all over the place of eccentrics, more or less raving lunatics, cranks, and reinvigorating crackpots. — Jacques Yonnet

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves. — Stephen King

In the same way, you have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, Am I doing this right? or Did I serve enough this week? When you are running toward Christ, you are freed up to serve, love, and give thanks without guilt, worry, or fear. As long as you are running, you are safe. — Francis Chan

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old. — Publilius Syrus

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon. — Alice Meynell

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground. — Paulo Coelho

The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him. — F.F. Bruce

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there. — Saul Williams

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? — Elizabeth Bowen

Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man. — Nevill Francis Mott

Did you really have to put ideas in Izzy's head? she now has some ... What did she call it? Oh yeah "Trifecta of Vaginal Bliss". What the hell does that shit mean? — Harper Sloan

She liked Christian names, she liked those who used them as a sign of easy inclusion and intimacy, but to her the use of a name remained a proclamation, an action, an event. She was not accustomed to names. — Margaret Drabble

That was ridiculous," I told Dorian, once she'd left. "She's not the kind of person to fall for your flirting." "On the contrary," said Dorian. "She's exactly the kind of person to fall for it. I understand these warrior maids, you know. They live such harsh, cold lives, always trying to keep up with the men ... when really, they just need someone to make them feel like a woman. And that, of course, is an area in which I excel. Why, if I'd had ten minutes alone with her - — Richelle Mead