Pretil Quotes & Sayings

objects were governed by their interactions — Paul Halpern

We are ill-fated in that our society demands we engage in unworthy conversations and dances in order to seem courteous, and yet such actions are ultimately vulgar. — Shannon Hale

As anyone who's ever been to a doctor knows, doctors are not necessarily your friends, any more than mail deliverers are you friends, or butchers are you friends, or refrigerator repair-people are you friends. A doctor is a man or woman whose job it is to make you feel better, that's all, and if you've ever had a shot you know that the statement 'Doctors can't hurt you' is simply absurd. — Lemony Snicket

My dad and I watched 'Amadeus' when I was 6, and I knew I wasn't going to be an engineer. — Sara Chase

You're so goddamn beautiful."
Her eyes open, and she looks down at me, leaning closer, her voice shaky as she says, "It's been so long since somebody said that and I actually felt it. — J.M. Darhower

For three nights he hadn't known how to touch my mother or what to say. Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow the stronger one's strength. And they had never understood, as they did now, what the word horror meant.

~pgs 20-21 — Alice Sebold

The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom. — Austin Kleon

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at. — Maggie Grace

Some people are dotted lines and other people are destinations. Some people get you somewhere and some people are just a place to be, all in themselves. But you cannot force those dotted lines into destinations. It doesn't really work that way. — Hannah Brencher

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. — David Mitchell

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home. — Cynthia Weil

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study. — Edward McKendree Bounds

And you could try to stop pretending to be so fucking perfect. Maybe then people will stop expecting perfection all the time — Santino Hassell

Would the man in the cabin have come after them? Would he have sent someone else? Or would he have never even known they were there and they could have just gone back to normal life.
Normal Life. He didn't even know what that would be now. — Shelley K. Wall