Nevanstine Quotes & Sayings

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? — Jean Kerr

Like so much in the centre, it was under construction or reconstruction. Scaffolding, cranes, the temporary business of architects and workmen, the portable toilets, the short-term fencing, the crash-barriers and the skips. Rubble, more rubble. There was a history of Berlin to be written on the topic of rubble. — Gail Jones

If you want to know the taste of an orange, you have to taste it; no amount of description can exactly convey its taste to you. Similarly, you cannot properly explain enlightenment to someone who has not experienced it. — Joseph P. Kauffman

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone De Beauvoir

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. — Claire Forlani

I pulled them out of the fire myself. I read them all. Every word you wrote. You and I, Tess, we're alike. We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt-I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamed. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted-and then I realized that truly I just wanted you. The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still. — Cassandra Clare

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written. — Edwin Louis Cole

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living. — Carey Williams