Mephistophelian Bargain Quotes & Sayings

Just because you let someone in doesn't mean you have to stop protecting yourself. It just means you have someone to share the job with. — Harper Sloan

Without another word, he walked out. Gennie waited until she heard his footsteps on the stairs before she pressed a hand to her stomach. The next time she saw a light in the dark, she told herself, she'd run like hell in the opposite direction. — Nora Roberts

In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases, satisfaction sets in, sweetness surfaces. I believe in the creative power of good feelings. I'm convinced that the desire to be real is everyone's divine imperative. — Danielle LaPorte

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live. — Barbara Brown Taylor

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books. — Colum McCann

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously. — Kelly Ripa

Each lift of his eyes, each parting of the thatched lip from the clean-shaven, must prelude the tenderness that kills the Monk and the Beast at a single blow. — E. M. Forster

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated. — Rose Macaulay