Reflejador Quotes & Sayings

Regret hung from the hem of everyone's lives, a rip cord reminder that what you want is not always what you get. Look at himself, outliving Aimee. Or Az, trying to find his daughter, only to have her wind up dead. Look at Shelby, with a child who was dying by degrees. Ethan, born into a body nobody deserves. At some point or another, everyone was failed by this world. Disappointment was the one thin humans had in common.
Taken this way, Ross didn't feel quite so alone. Trapped in your whirlpool of what might have been, you might no be able to drag yourself out - but you could be saved by someone else who reached in. — Jodi Picoult

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. — Orson Welles

Gil's hands imprison my own. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess. — William Ewart Napier

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber. — Rachel Caine

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone. — John Steinbeck

Chase's ability to adjust his manner of leadership to the needs of his men begs comparison to one of the greatest and most revered leaders of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve. — Janwillem Van De Wetering

We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies. — John Keats

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness. — Margaret Fuller

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do. — Berkeley Breathed

She let her practice speak through her body. She was a stalk of bamboo. She was a summer storm. She was a whirlwind. She was made for this. — Ramez Naam

My father used to say that all protagonists were versions of the author who wrote them - even if it meant the author had to acknowledge a side of himself that he did not know existed. It just required courage. — Catherine Lowell