Merante Gifts Hours Quotes & Sayings

And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to. — Khadija Rupa

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them. — Vladimir Nabokov

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton

Look, I'm a realist and I just had my heart ripped out. I don't want to be involved with anyone right now. You've been so kind to me and I don't know why. It's just that things like this don't happen in real life. Prince Charming doesn't come to the rescue all the time. Most of the time, he's too busy with perfect freakin' Cinderella and her teeny-tiny perfect feet to even notice the rest of us. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity. — Bill Hybels

And that's about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could. — Pittacus Lore

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already. — Seneca The Younger

When she passed on the ham the explanation was she was a vegetarian. Kat had asked why she was eating eggs, then, if she didn't eat meat. Smiling, she replied, I don't kill animals for food, but I am pro-choice. — James R Tuck

The uncomfortable truth is that we all enjoyed the party far too much to query where all the booze was coming from. Now we seem intent on lynching the barman for letting us get drunk and attacking the Government for letting us get a hangover. — Sean O'Grady

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain? — Emile Hirsch

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. — Jonathan Edwards

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything. — Jon Brion

I hope that wherever else I have failed, whatever harm I have caused to strangers and friends, that you may speak for me. Not before a pulpit or upon a stage. Not with words great or loud. But only to be, to persist, to live a life with pride and worth. In twenty years' time, thirty, or forty I hope that you may sit upon the porch of your home, look out upon a greening field that you have tilled, see your children surrounding you with love, and think for a moment upon me. That is all now that I truly wish for. To be for a moment in your thoughts, when I have long passed from this earth, and perhaps in a way I may find my redemption, an earthly redemption, not everlasting, but scared nonetheless. — Tara Conklin

Celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em. — Edna Ferber