Rebuttals For Call Quotes & Sayings

How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live. — P.Sainath

When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause. — Lynne Truss

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels. — Heidi Julavits

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. — Emo Philips

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction. — Henry David Thoreau

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. — Joan Didion

The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The point is that when you're playing D&D and your group comes across a heap of treasure, or a big sparkly gem, or a magical skull, you should never take it. It's always a trap." He uncrossed his arms and waved them wildly. "This is a trap." Jace was silent. He was looking at Simon thoughtfully, as if he'd never seen him before, or at least never considered him so closely. "Come here," he said. Simon moved toward him, his eyebrows raised. "What-oof!" Jace had dropped his sword into Simon's hands. "Hold this for me while I climb," Jace said, and leaped up onto the plinth. — Cassandra Clare

Don't be afraid of your dark places," Mom told her. "If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there. — Jeannette Walls

I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before.
Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word.
Both swimming in unknowns.
I've been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don't and I'm not.
Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen.
Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay.
Wondering how much wing is enough to fly. — Erin Morgenstern