Peak Experiences Passages Quotes & Sayings

Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so perfectly born to die. — Maggie Stiefvater

It is the iron." Grimalkin picked his way over a puddle, then leaped atop a fallen tree, shaking out his paws."This close to the false king's realm, his influence is stronger that ever. It will be worse once you are actually within its borders."
Puck snorted."Doesn't seem like it's affecting you much, Cat."
That is because I am smarter than you and prepare for these things."
"Really? How would you prepare for me tossing you into a lake? — Julie Kagawa

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect — David Nicholls

Loneliness is just a passing disillusion we can conquer by acknowledging those around us. — Jenny Cutler Lopez

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust. — Edmund Spenser

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie. — Javier Bardem

So if we're going to keep all kids safe, we have to make incest and child sexual abuse acceptable topics of conversation. When other people want us to keep quiet because the subject makes them uncomfortable, or when someone questions our memory of events, we have to hold to the truth. Sexual abuse of children is preventable! But we can't wait for someone else to act. We're the ones who have to stop this madness. And it starts with each of us telling our story. — Lauren Book

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. — Tom Waits

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. — Rudyard Kipling

What is a fiction writer after all, but a judge, a dispenser of justice, an arranger of fates, an agent, above all, of moral order? — Jonathan Dee

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure? — Joan Collins

I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from poets and philosophers, from educators and ecologists, from postal clerks and miners and traffic cops and nurses and waiters and musicians and cooks and cleaners and from ... Regular People Everywhere. That is to say, from YOU. — Neale Donald Walsch

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. — Edmund Waller

I'm a little bit more of a relaxed, lazy mother. — Shannyn Sossamon