Paleobotany Journals Quotes & Sayings

'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.' — Kristina McMorris

One thing in our favor: some of this "becoming kinder" happens naturally, with age. It might be a simple matter of attrition: as we get older, we come to see how useless it is to be selfish - how illogical, really. We come to love other people and are thereby counter-instructed in our own centrality. We get our butts kicked by real life, and people come to our defense, and help us, and we learn that we're not separate, and don't want to be. We see people near and dear to us dropping away, and are gradually convinced that maybe we too will drop away (someday, a long time from now). Most people, as they age, become less selfish and more loving. I think this is true. The great Syracuse poet, Hayden Carruth, said, in a poem written near the end of his life, that he was "mostly Love, now. — George Saunders

The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ. — Dorothy L. Sayers

You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you ... I die a little. — Yasmina Khadra

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. — Michel De Montaigne

It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it. — Jan Ellison

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish. — Jimmy Buffett

Yeah, so? I was ignorant, but I'm not a fucking moron. Why would I give the shit to you just so I could buy it back from you later?" I leaned back against the counter. "Hon, you're fucking with the wrong chick. I've been around too many drug dealers to buy into a scheme like that."
He shocked me by bursting out laughing. "Drug dealers? Well, that's an interesting analogy." He shook his head but a sardonic smile stayed on his face. — Diana Rowland

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty ... all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine. — Stephenie Meyer

If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it. — Caroline Kepnes

We may find great relief and inexplicable solace in purposefully looking beyond grief in order to determine the provision made within it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals. — Helen McCrory

I know I
should crumble
for better reasons
but have you seen
that boy he brings
the sun to its knees
every
night. — Rupi Kaur