Moussaieff Family Quotes & Sayings

But this too is true: stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present. — Alexander MacLaren

of Weedpatch Camp were working in the fields. Perhaps as many as fifty children were playing baseball at the school or swimming in the pool when three cars driven by teenage boys began to circle the playground. The teenage boys got out of the cars and squared off in front of Eddie and a line of other sixteen-year-old boys from the camp. When the intruders hurled rocks into the swimming pool, the Okie boys charged forward and the Fight was on. Some men from the camp rushed over to the playground to restore order, but by then the invaders were in retreat with bloody noses and scuffed faces. That — Jerry Stanley

I did not like war, even when it was the popular thing to do. — Charles Bukowski

His favorite saying was, 'Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum."
"'Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe'?" Boyd said, sounding a little incredulous. Isabella hadn't, apparently, been the only one who understood her defiance.
She nodded. "Usually he only said it when my brother or I were being particularly horrible. — Patricia Briggs

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy. — Paul Simon

The testosterone in here is so thick I can taste it - and it tastes like shit. — Nicole Jacquelyn

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I read Hesse's Steppenwolf thrice. The first time I was enchanted, the second time disappointed, the third time appalled. — Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too. — Tom Petty

Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want another. — Maggie Stiefvater