Recedings Quotes & Sayings

As I stand at the edge of the pit, searching for his body amongst all the others, I am slightly frightened by the violent clashes. It seems almost savagery, the way they throw themselves into each other. As I continue to watch, unable to look away, drawn in by their angry and troubled release I see him. His body is sweating, his muscles are flexed and his face holds an expression of pain mixed with pleasure. In that moment I realize their is so much I don't know about the man I am falling in love with and my fear of him excites me. — Nicole T. Smith

I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me. — Paulo Coelho

Worldliness is not so much what we do, it's what we want to do. It's an issue of the heart. — Britt Merrick

Trying not to get emotional but still hanging on the rearview mirror's single tale of recedings and vanishing points as we hang on looks our lovers give. — Thomas Pynchon

More sensitive than others in the beginning, we have to develop the will, the stamina, the determination, and the insensitivity to take critical abuse. A good writer, therefore, does well to see himself as a strong, weak person, full of brave timidity, sensitive and insensitive. — Norman Mailer

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new. — Ariel Gore

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Hope is misleading, hope is cruel, but hope is all we have. — Meredith Black

What do you want from me?"
"Own up to it. I can live with a cheater, but not with a coward. — Aleksandr Voinov

I'm not a time person. A watch is not good for me. — Woody Harrelson