Piecemealed Quotes & Sayings

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem. — Erin Morgenstern

There were fireworks the very first night, things that you should be afraid of perhaps, for they might remind you of other more horrible things, but these were beautiful, rockets that ascended into the ancient soft air of Mexico and shook the stars apart in blue and white fragments. — Ray Bradbury

Prayer is a connection from your heart with a force that is powerful beyond measure, loves unconditionally and impartially, and embraces you whenever you turn to it. — Pooja Ruprell

There are people to whom gain is unimportant, who are hopelessly unhappy and lonely. — Emil Cioran

Fucking bastards are simple by nature. — Alice Sebold

If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found. — Thomas Merton

He said, "It was burning a hole in my pocket. I had to get rid of it, as quickly as possible. I had to buy the most important think I could think of."
And he went out and bought a dreadfully tiny bottle of attar of roses.
I think he did exactly the right thing.
Some people say Uncle Einar is a snob, and I sincerely hope I can develop along the same lines. — Tove Jansson

Fiction always surpasses reality but reality is always richer than fiction. — Javier Cercas

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge, Henry said. — Gayle Forman

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors. — Jonathan Galassi