Petitioned Crossword Quotes & Sayings

These two "speech communities," as it were, are Hurston's great sources of inspiration not only in her novels but also in her autobiography. — Zora Neale Hurston

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason. — Albert Camus

I love you... I want you... I need you. The words chanted in her head with the beat of her pulse, repeating over and over. His voice - or was it hers? - grew more insistent with each utterance. Come to me. Give yourself to me. — C.L. Wilson

The first requirement of civilisation is that men should be willing to repress their basest instincts and appetites: failure to do which makes them, on account of their intelligence, far worse than mere beasts. — Theodore Dalrymple

I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there. — R.A. Dickey

Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live. — William J. Critchlow Jr.

Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?"
Her stomach twisted. "No." She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn't had the gift before? That she couldn't have used it against him? "I would never lie - "
The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie.
"I'm so sorry," she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air.
Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. "You're even more painful to look at than she is. — Marissa Meyer

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world. — Marilyn Monroe

The learning process continues until the day you die. — Kirk Douglas

They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together. — Lisa McMann