Porpentine Twine Quotes & Sayings

It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such;
or DIE
perplexing alternative! — Thomas Chatterton

No one can take the shot for you. — Lorii Myers

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. — Philip Yancey

Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.
(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.) — Claire Gillian

You must mark in these things obviously. It's the fact you want to emphasise, not the subjective impression to record. What's the fact? - red little spiky stigmas of the female flower, dangling yellow male catkin, yellow pollen flying from one to the other. Make a pictorial record of the fact, as — D.H. Lawrence

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything. — Libba Bray