Pisacane Poerio Quotes & Sayings

You can change your home. You know that. You do it every day. — Merrilee Boyack

What happened was pain and pleasure and shock and satisfaction all rolled into one. Pain as he withdrew and thrust over and over again past the soreness of her newly opened womanhood. Pleasure because it was more wonderful, more exhilirating, than any other sensation she had ever experienced. Shock because she had not expected such a deep and vigorous and prolonged invasion of her body. Satisfaction because now, before it was too late, he was her lover. Because she would always be able to remember him as her lover — Mary Balogh

Peer pressure is just that: pressure. — Jerry Spinelli

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. — Robert Breault

Going home was equivalent to sticking my head in a meat grinder and then asking why it hurt. — J. Lynn

If you pretend
everything's fine long enough,
everything eventually becomes fine. — Lisa Kleypas

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

Awake to the spiritual realities of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find. — Kathryn Harrison

And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy. — Jean Rhys

To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows. — Robert Liparulo

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. — Sydney J. Harris

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society. — Brian Roberts

That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a severe mercy. A mercy as severe as death, a severity as merciful as love. — Sheldon Vanauken

She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him. — Marissa Meyer