Petillon Quotes & Sayings

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through. — Sara Sheridan

My vagina claps her pretty lips, and my magic marble lights up like we've won the million-dollar prize. — Helena Hunting

The uncanny first impression was again one of private hells coexisting in public space. — Patrick McGrath

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy. — Frederick Lenz

His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind. — Ford Madox Ford

She oozes the kind of over-confidence that only comes to people who wear deep red lipstick and sparkly tissue sarees in bright daylight. — Aditi Mathur Kumar

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways. — Alexander Volkov

When I was a child her sureness enraged me (regardless of the argument involved). It was a sureness that revealed - at least to my eyes - how, behind the bravado, she was vulnerable and hesitent, whereas I wanted her to be invincible. Consequently, I would contradict whatever it was she was being so certain about, in the hope we might discover something else, which we could question together with a shared confidence. Yet what happened, in fact, was that my counterattacks, made her more frail than she usually was, and the two of us would be drawn, helpless, into a malestrom of perdition and lamentation, silently crying out for an angel to come and save us. On no such occasion did an angel come. — John Berger

even though doctors know better than anyone the importance of exercise and diet, 44 percent of them are overweight.1 — Shawn Achor

He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite. — Jorge Luis Borges

Can you believe how ridiculous they are? The girls here are shameless," America said. Finch shook his head in awe. "It's Travis. I think it's the bad-boy thing. They either want to save him, or think they're immune to his wicked ways. I'm not sure which. — Jamie McGuire

Perhaps they saw what their minds were instructed to see, because the human brain is not equipped to see War, Famine, Pollution, and Death when they don't want to be seen, and has got so good at not seeing that it often manages not to see them even when they abound on every side. — Terry Pratchett