Meriemi Quotes & Sayings

I don't know, man." I sighed. "I can't explain it. I guess that's just what happens when we live. Nobody is promised anything. That's why life's so precious — Rachel Van Dyken

On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear. — Joyce Carol Oates

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot. — Maggie Stiefvater

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Don't pout that way, my child, you'll give yourself a blister — Lloyd Alexander

Homeopathy seemed ... both mathematical and poetic. — Scarlett Thomas

I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you. — Rachel Klein

Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune. — Thomas Traherne

prison for writing seditious articles, and made use of — Adrian Vickers

As I've looked into the eyes of street children in Afghanistan desperate for a future other than terrorism, or children in Rwanda hungry for something greater than genocide, I've reached one big conclusion: we belong to one another. And children across the Earth deserve the same hopes and opportunities we give our children here."--Bernard Amadei, civil engineering professor at the University of Colorado and founder of Engineers Without Borders — Bernard Amadei

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith. — Stephen Sprouse