Percebe Quotes & Sayings

You came in like rain
Washed away and drowned every last piece of me
Could you not have left me
With so much as a scrap?
Upon which I may breath, live, be, go
But instead I wonder between dreams
And faint impressions of consciousness — Queenbe Monyei

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. — Yusuf Islam

A page of a book is like a human face. Look at a page by Hemingway and compare it with Sterne and Marcel Proust. They are different typographical beings. But force upon them those ragged edges, and the influence of the author's style on the physical aspect of the page, their typographical physiognomy will disappear. No, unjustified setting is a sort of gleichschaltung [enforced conformity] through diversity, a very phoney diversity. Produced methodically by chance. For the comfort of the keyboard, and not for the comfort of the eye. — Stefan Themerson

You two seem to have become fast friends," Linley remarked.
"It's my way with women," Grant said. "They can't resist my charm."
Linley's mouth quirked. "Charm? I've never suspected you of having any."
They were both surprised to hear Vivien's feeble scratch of voice join in the conversation. "That's because... you're not a woman."
Grant stared at her with an unwilling smile. Half dead, she might be, but the instinct to flirt had not left her. And God help him, he was far from immune. "Rallying to my defense, are you?" He reached down to stroke the curve of her cheek with his fingertip. "I'll have to thank you later. — Lisa Kleypas

Dear God, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through
to get here.

Here. That's all I wanted to be.

I promise. — Ocean Vuong

Don't
tempt the scorpion if you don't want to
get stung. — Colleen Hoover

Patience mimics the power of infinity. — Brandon Mull

I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up the phone, they know what the picture's going to be. So there's a certain comfort in that, a certain security that they can lay out the cover of the magazine and kind of know what it's going to be. — Gregory Heisler

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. — Philip Massinger

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you. — Howard Thurman