Raccolto Seattle Quotes & Sayings

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving ... — John Updike

Just a story. It had become one of the defining truths of my life that, no matter how I tried to keep them flattened, two-dimensional, jailed in paper and ink, there would always be stories that refused to stay bound inside books. It was never just a story. I would know: a story had swallowed my whole life. — Ransom Riggs

Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety. — Dorothy H Cohen

.. From there we came to love. We told each other what lovers never tire of hearing and needing to say. — Ian McEwan

Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up. — Clare Balding

When life throws you down, have the courage to stand back up and dust yourself off. — Aaron Morgan

Make good choices and always do your best. — Yvonne Capitelli

Take care when wandering about,
in the wilds of the valley and heights of jagged rock.
What a horrific garden of wonderland we have stumbled into;
where a turn of one's heel can lead to flowering jubilation,
and another leads to the twisted and thorny thicket of despair.... — Kate Cullen

To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana