Prostrating Position Quotes & Sayings

I try to hear her voice, try to separate that single pitch from the shouts and applause. But she's as lost to me as she was the night I cried and she didn't turn back to see if I was okay. Three weeks, two days, and twenty-three hours ago. And she's already with someone else. — David Levithan

Memoir done right is an art, a made thing. It's not just raw reportage flung splat on the page. — Mary Karr

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped. — Mark Twain

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life. — Emmy Rossum

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou