Quartzite Quotes & Sayings

A feral smile, and he grabbed her by the chin
not hard enough to hurt, but to get her to look at him. "First thing," he breathed, "we're not friends. I'm still training you, and that means you're still under my command." the flicker of hurt must have shown, because he leaned closer, his grip tightening on her jaw. "Second
whatever we are, whatever this is? I'm still figuring it out, too. So if I'm going to give you the space you deserve to sort yourself out, then you can damn well give it to me. — Sarah J. Maas

Whether I'm right or wrong has nothing to do with gender. — Megan Shepherd

What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said. — Jhumpa Lahiri

When you're a professional athlete, you get paid millions of dollars for doing something that's not only fun, but also physical and badass. You have fans: pathetic people without their own lives or hopes or dreams that measure their happiness on your weekly performance (this still boggles my mind, but in the best way possible - however, my role as a fan now is quite detached). You get to travel around to different cities and fuck their most beautiful women. You are given license to do pretty much whatever you want all the time, and are forgiven easily and often instantly when caught doing anything illegal. Professional athletes can literally get away with murder. — A.D. Aliwat

Fatality makes us invisible. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody. — Abe Lemons

By night within that ancient house Immense, black, damned, anonymous. — Tracy Letts

Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. — Arthur Koestler

To little men, gods send little things. — Callimachus

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who, when she no longer needs something that has served her, tosses it away, while her abuses, indeed her killing it, are its lascivious bliss. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

the dolphins stitch sky to sea. — Ellen Bass

A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own. — Laurie Helgoe

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. — Confucius