Ponderings Collection Quotes & Sayings

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in. — Sonja Sohn

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did. — E. M. Forster

In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life. — Jennifer Lawrence

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations. — William George Jordan

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters. — Ellen Potter

Bulgy Bears," said — C.S. Lewis

Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead ... — Jostein Gaarder

The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one. — Franz Kafka

I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation ... and wanting to reach for another one of my books. — Debbie Macomber

If you don't read the Holy Bible, you don't stand a chance with the antichrist. — Felix Wantang