Ragnatele Disegno Quotes & Sayings

She wondered why there were only two kinds of weather: hardship in the morning, and tribulation at night. — Colson Whitehead

God loves to show mercy ... His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger. — John Piper

To call for close reading, in fact, is to do more than insist on due attentiveness to the text. It inescapably suggests an attention to this rather than to something else: to the 'words on the page' rather than to the contexts which produced and surround them. It implies a limiting as well as a focusing of concern - a limiting badly needed by literary talk which would ramble comfortably from the texture of Tennyson's language to the length of his beard. But in dispelling such anecdotal irrelevancies, 'close reading' also held at bay a good deal else: it encouraged the illusion that any piece of language, 'literary' or not, can be adequately studied or even understood in isolation. It was the beginnings of a 'reification' of the literary work, the treatment of it as an object in itself, which was to be triumphantly consummated in the American New Criticism. — Terry Eagleton

They didn't get me, I should have said. They saved me. — Lauren Oliver

She had to be honest. And this was where the truth hurt. She wanted to see Jack Force again. But it was agony — Melissa De La Cruz

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan. — Noam Chomsky

A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz

I think it would be truer to say,' Philippa said, 'that both of us at the time had our reasons for hurting you. — Dorothy Dunnett