Meknassia Quotes & Sayings

I liked him, there was no doubt about that. But I wasn't sure if he was good for me or not. I didn't always stick to things that were good for me - positively railed against it sometimes - but he was a different type of not good for me. He did things to my mind and body that I hadn't ever experienced before.
But it wasn't as if I could get him out of my head either: every moment I had free would suddenly be crammed with thoughts of him. His soft lips, the gentle urgency with which they'd kissed me. The intoxicating smell of his skin. His moss-green eyes that would follow everything I said, then would meet my eyes so we could share a smile. It was driving me slowly and pleasurably insane. — Dorothy Koomson

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided. — Patrick Henry

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven. — Chaim Potok

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex. — Carl Everett

Nicholas, dressed in black and trailing them like a sinister storm cloud, had a dry little preoccupied smile. — Martha Wells

We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all." — C.S. Lewis

The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him
one of the principal uses of a book. — Susan Sontag