Nowlantravel Quotes & Sayings

Why were we tortured? We were in love and life was a fast current swarming around our ankles, threatening to topple us into the wet part of the planet. It was intense, that's why we were tortured. It was enormous and exploding like palm tree. Iris was my Yuri-G, my Delilah, my Stella Marie. Strong dark women you had to love with a strong dark heart that throbbed in gorgeous pain because love is terrible. I mean, ultimately. It would go away like a needle lifting from the vinyl at the end of the song, we knew this. The music would cease, one of us would die or else we'd just break up, and this drove us to drink from each other like two twelve-year-olds sneaking vodka from the liquor cabinet, trying to get it all down, trying to get as fucked up as possible before we got caught. — Michelle Tea

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. — William Dyer

The more stupid and unlucky man is,
the more claims he makes to the woman. — Coco Chanel

With exotic settings, sensual conflict, and an intriguing hint of Italian history, Katherine Bone's contemporary debut captivated me!"

Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times bestselling author — Katherine Bone

A lot of people question how talented I am. But I'm a real dude and I know real things and I've seen real people get their head blown off. — Young Jeezy

Neither of them even had time to scream. — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

I'm not a person. I'm just 3 mental illnesses stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat. — Unknown

I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent? — Carolyn Custis James

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner — Suzanne Collins

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before. — Robert Dessaix

We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it. — Seamus Heaney

A writer writes alone in a room with no distractions. The minute he's distracted he loses the cathedral in which he must perform, which is himself. — Shane Solerno