Petrunka Stroud Quotes & Sayings

The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications. — Frederick Lenz

Love costs us much,
but we still need it.
Wisdom costs us much,
but we still seek it.
Faith costs us much,
but we still practice it.
Life costs us much,
but we still desire it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When you die it's the end of your life. — Sam Shepard

I've got to go." He hung up suddenly as if afraid of being caught. His mom had probably come into the room. The Zeemans had four sons and a daughter. The sons were all six feet or above. The daughter was five nine. They were all over twenty-one. And they were all scared of their mother. Not literally scared, but Charlotte Zeeman wore the pants in the family. One family dinner and I knew that. I — Laurell K. Hamilton

AUTHOR'S GOODREADS PAGE: I love antiheroes. Female characters who don't just accept their faults, but downright exploit them.

No nice boys.
No shame. — Lime Craven

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view. — James Salter

I don't often need rescuing, but it's nice when it goes well and doesn't involve great heights. — Melody Malone

Tony," DeMarco said, and Benedetto slowly opened his eyes. — Mike Lawson

So, we're in agreement. That's a crazy idea and we will never have one like that again."
"Cook, all our ideas are crazy. That's setting the bar a little high, don't you think? — Darynda Jones

The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion. — E. Stanley Jones

That's what siblings are: a reality check. Try to become someone you're not - affect an accent, or start quoting the temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit- and they're the ones who smack you upside the head. Siblings are like potters; they try you by fire, glaze you with taunts, finish you with well-aimed jibes. If you emerge from that kiln without cracking, you can survive the world. — Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

I've had more people in my life take their lives than ... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music. — Paul Westerberg

It was possible to graduate from passive to active, to take the thing that had once driven you nearly to madness as a neutral prize of no more than occasional academic interest. — Stephen King

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. — Sidney Sheldon