Raptitude Quotes & Sayings

When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out.
"I'm such an idiot," he said.
Cath fell between his knees and hugged him.
"I can't believe I said that," he said. "I can't even go nine hours without seeing you. — Rainbow Rowell

Thoughts repeat themselves. Experiences do not. — David Cain

The harpy smiles. A harpy's smile is an ugly thing, even seen edge-on. The harpy says, You do not have the power to make me not alone, Desiree. — Elizabeth Bear

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city. — Meir Kahane

Angels appear in many different forms to hold your hand through the difficult times. — Doreen Virtue

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse — David Attenborough

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
- Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475 — Norman Cousins

Nobody's as good as you when you do what you do. I need you to own the time that comes with that. — Eric Thomas

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business. — Sara Sheridan

Every feeling hath been shaken;
Pride, which not a world could bow,
Bows to thee - by thee forsaken,
Even my soul forsakes me now. — George Gordon Byron

Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos. — Andrew Schneider

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. — Jeph Jacques

Sound loves to revel in a summer night. — Edgar Allan Poe

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education. — Anne Campbell

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. — Woodrow Wilson