Portlynn Quotes & Sayings

You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving.
- Macey — Ally Carter

Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Published in this month's Harper's, from a conversation held in Beijing in February 1973:
Chairman Mao Zedong: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million.
U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: The chairman is improving his offer.
Mao: We can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children, and our children are too many. — Mao Tse-tung

I am her heartbreak at night.
I am her tears come the dawn.
I am her all that was right,
now turned horrible wrong.
I took her happy away,
replaced with an ache so strong.
I made her regret the day
she played me her favorite song. — Kirk Diedrich

Why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? — Bernhard Schlink

Miracles are unforgettable deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below. — Ernest Shackleton

In the morning
'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it'
... — M. John Harrison

She wondered whimsically if he wore those spectacles in a vain attempt to keep ladies from fainting at his feet. — Amanda McCabe

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures. — Joseph Cornell