Mazzantini Quotes & Sayings

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of. — Margaret Mazzantini

Cecilia could have told him that Mr. Fawnhope's intrepidity sprang more from a sublime unconsciousness of the risk of infection than from any deliberate heroism; but since she was not in the habit of discussing her lover with her brother he continued in a happy state of ignorance, himself too practical a man to comprehend the density of the veil in which a poet could wrap himself. — Georgette Heyer

I fought tenaciously against what seemed to be my destiny; I struggled against my natural reaction with all my strength, because it was killing my dreams and forcing me to go in the wrong direction. — Margaret Mazzantini

The weirdest love stories are always the best — Margaret Mazzantini

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog. — Carl Sandburg

My auntie and uncle live in Inglewood, and I used to stay with them when I would come to L.A. to audition for pilot season and other things like that. — Shameik Moore

Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium. — Marcello Malpighi

You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity. — Margaret Mazzantini

We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry. — Margaret Mazzantini

Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam. — Kola Boof

My child, I don't know where people go when they die, but I know where they stay. — Margaret Mazzantini

Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower. — Debasish Mridha

A broken heart is not a broken glass — ABC

Believe in your characters with all your heart, & they will believe in you. Only then will they trust you enough to reveal themselves.
-RCSJR — Robert Clifton Storey Jr.

start something, with a knowledge to end it. — Krishna Sagar

If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen. — Cassey Ho

All's well with thee if thou art in just hands. — Anne Reeve Aldrich

Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs. — Margaret Mazzantini

There's no explaining love. It stands by itself; it makes mistakes and struggles on its own. — Margaret Mazzantini