Poopak Shahideh Quotes & Sayings

11:47, positively crack-of-dawn for me. — Gayle Forman

And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that? — George Pattison

Bitterness is a paralytic.
Love is a much more serious motivator. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was. — Gayle Forman

There are some wives who require but a sentence. There are some who require a book. You, Miss Clarke, would require volumes. — Sally Cabot Gunning

I wish the awkwardness between us doesn't last long. I want my friend back. — Veronica Roth

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African. — Donald Johanson

I really loved Kiyoyori-in the way you people love each other, and we, not so much. I had never felt that before. I should be able to pass away without regret, as easily as the leaf falls from the tree in autumn, but the idea of never seeing him again, in whatever form, fills me with sorrow. I cling to life for his sake. This is what love does to you Shikanoko. See how the false wolf grows more real every day, because it has become attached to you. It shivers at your approach and wags its tail at the sound of your voice. It has made you its master, it lives for your affection. But, as your saints teach and we have always known, attachment enslaves you. Only those free from it see the world as it really is and have power over themselves and all things. — Lian Hearn

Truth inevitably pierces its target, the hearts of men".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

She was crying now, quietly, inhaling so vehemently it was as if she were trying to suck the tears back into her eyes. — Anthony Doerr

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past
or more accurately, pastness
is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15
" ... But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) — Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid? — Camille Paglia

The bad reviews get to me, believe me. — Daniel Craig