Partula Suturalis Quotes & Sayings

Like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Mr. D," Grover asked timidly, "if you're not going to eat it, could I have your Diet Coke can? — Rick Riordan

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with. — Terry Pratchett

I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice. — Brittany Howard

Compassion dissolves ignorance. — Alaric Hutchinson

The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower — Galway Kinnell

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.
(pg. 73, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine") — Wendell Berry

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted. — Dada Bhagwan

Moral duty has weight, things that have weight have gravity, and so the duty to bear mortal responsibility pulled me back into the operating room. Lucy was fully supportive. — Paul Kalanithi