Ramshackled Quotes & Sayings

With a kind of wry envy, Hazel realized that Bigwig was actually looking forward to meeting the Efrafan assault. He knew he could fight and he meant to show it. He was not thinking of anything else. The hopelessness of their chances had no important place in his thoughts. Even the sound of the digging, clearer already, only set him thinking of the best way to sell his life as dearly as he could. — Richard Adams

Don't you see? We were meant to save each other. — Gretchen Powell

Because you've put the past behind you and it doesn't bother you anymore that she — Ruth Cardello

(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just had to discover jars). At one point I laid each chapter out on the terrazzo floor, eighty-three in all, arranged them like the map of an imaginary city. Some of the piles of paper, I imagined, were freestanding buildings, some were clustered into neighborhoods, and some were open space. On the outskirts, of course, were the tenements
abandoned, ramshackled. The spaces between the piles were the roads, the alleyways, the footpaths, the rivers. The bridges to other neighborhoods, the bridges out ... In this way I could get a sense if one could find their way through the book, if the map I was creating made sense, if it was a place one would want to spend some time in. If one could wander there, if one could get lost. — Nick Flynn

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. — Stephen Levine

There's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring. — David Sedaris

If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah. — Charlotte Rampling

There is a purpose in life's struggles. Without them, we stay the same. — Auliq Ice

But when you cared about someone, you made sacrifices. You put their happiness first. — Sabrina James