Mysterious Skin Book Quotes & Sayings

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week. — Dwight L. Moody

The nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman. — Terry Pratchett

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career. — Michel De Montaigne

My mullet was an insecurity shield. My mullet was an ethnic hatchet. My mullet was an arrow on fire.
My mullet said to the literary world, Hello, you privileged prep-school assholes, I'm here to steal your thunder, lightning, and book sales. — Sherman Alexie

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do. — Alex London

A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already. — Lord Chesterfield

Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver. — Brene Brown

In that moment, I understood implicitly what my mom had meant. That was the moment I felt my heart smile for the first time. — Nicola Haken

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius

Dogs are fine in the field. — George Herbert

I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move. — Patricia Briggs

I feel like I've gone through stages with the industry; when I first started showing it was during the time of the recession, the economical situation meant fashion was suffering. But now the fashion business is back and booming, and I think it just encourages me to constantly set myself bigger and bigger challenges and reach new goals. — Roksanda Ilincic

The depth of your challenges will determine the heights of your success in life — Bernard Kelvin Clive

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius. — Adolf Hitler

Numerous times throughout history, a single person has made a tremendous impact on the world. I don't know why anyone would think that can't still happen. — Richelle E. Goodrich