Nusaiba Bent Quotes & Sayings

I'm never going to get tired of finding you looking at me that way. Like you have to have me right now."
She laughed, then looked around to make sure Leah wasn't too close. "I just had you," she whispered ... — Jill Shalvis

Making a Fist
For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern
past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.
"How do you know if you are going to die?"
I begged my mother.
We had been traveling for days.
With strange confidence she answered,
"When you can no longer make a fist."
Years later I smile to think of that journey,
the borders we must cross separately,
stamped with our unanswerable woes.
I who did not die, who am still living,
still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,
clenching and opening one small hand. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Keelie was still breathing, Manon realized as they neared, the wind tearing at her face and clothes. Keelie was still breathing, and fighting like hell to keep steady. Not to survive. Keelie knew she would be dead any moment. She was fighting for the witch on her back. — Sarah J. Maas

That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me. — Danny Gatton

If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. — Joseph Sobran

In today's time, no other 'charity' is acceptable or practical than the 'wisdom' that can transform the human life... Meaning the knowledge which can teach a man to climb the ladder of success. — Deep Trivedi

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago. — Mahatma Gandhi

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose ... — Gillian Anderson

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. — William Arthur Ward

This will not be easy,' he said. 'Neither is failure. — Michael Dobbs

Don't just get what you need; achieve what you want. — Vikrmn

Revisiting 'Leave It to Beaver,' and seeing it in the pristine visual clarity of digital restoration, are mood-altering if not quite mind-altering experiences, very much for the better. — Tom Shales

And there she went, spoiling a moment. As usual. — Harlem Dae

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with. — Idina Menzel

People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to stay so down-to-earth in the face of such incredible success? ... A third frequently asked question is: "Girl, where you from? Trinidad? Guyana? Dominican Republic? You married? You got kids?" This is mostly asked by guys on the sidewalk selling I LOVE NEW YORK paraphernalia in New York City. — Mindy Kaling