No Easy Answers Brooks Brown Quotes & Sayings

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing. — Helene Cixous

He weaved through the group like a dark secret whispered from one person to another. — K.M. Scott

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. — Charles Simmons

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. — Robert Casey

Among other things, I've taken up smoking. Ana says I should stop with the good girl/bad girl stuff, and obviously she's right, but sometimes when I have a cigarette in my hand and the streets are dangerously empty and I've had a few drinks after my shift and I am noticing the lights that are on in different apartments, lighting stairways and whole buildings, blinking red on the skyline, I think about the nights on the island when I was content to stand alone outside the house, listening to the god horns in that soft blackness, and tasting the air, sweet with salt. — Aoibheann Sweeney

I just think you can't be so quick to be so sure of other people's situations. Examine your own situation. You also have a lot of choices. It's not always easier for other people. It doesn't work like that. — Jennifer Close

Everything about everything is obvious to everyone. — Amy Kathleen Ryan

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself. — Lionel Trilling

You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes, for your own good. — Nicola Griffith

Evil? What is that? ... You said you were death itself. Are you evil, then, or are you simply stronger and more awake than others? Who gives more shape to sentient history: the good, who adhere to the tried and true, or those who seek to rouse beings from their stupor and lead them to glory? A storm you are, but a much needed one, to wash away the old and complacent and prune the galaxy of deadweight.
-Plagueis — James Luceno

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do. — Linda Ronstadt

came home safely, which he doubted as anxiously — Tracy Rees

Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian's ease of manner and flow of ideas, — Henry James

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. — Confucius