Refrigerium Quotes & Sayings

When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts. — Bell Hooks

Your heart influences your art. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Marriage is a series of promises. — J.D. Robb

No one is in a more strategic position than you are to influence the people you are with. — Don Piper

[ ... ] we will turn this place around, and a new civilization can be born that does not know boundary lines but knows better how to live in the garden and knows that we are one thought away from paradise. — Jon Ronson

The time had finally come when she would have to accept the full power of the Starwife. No longer could she be just Ysabelle. Now she had a land to govern and all the daunting responsibilities that that entailed. The liberty she had experienced since the night she had escaped from the Ring of Banbha seemed to vanish. She was left stripped of her freedom, and only long years of a lonely reign stretched out before her. — Robin Jarvis

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. — John Irving

Perhaps the choice was neither right nor wrong. It only existed. — Ashley Gardner

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know. — Don Watson

Rachel," I snap, "I don't care if Janelle wants to work at Hooters. I don't care if you and the rest of the world want to go spend your money on dried-out chicken and ketchup-based sauces. And least of all - less than almost anything else I can imagine - I don't care how much sex your sister is or isn't having. That's kind of the deal with the whole uptight feminazi thing - we don't care when other women want to wear stupid orange Soffe shorts with white tennis shoes and have a lot of sex, or when they want to wear habits and live in a convent, or if they want to walk around in pasties and never French kiss, so long as they're allowed to do what they want. And right now, all I want is to go to bed. Okay? — Emily Henry

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious! — Bram Stoker

A victim act is a form of passive aggression. It seeks to achieve gratification not by honest work or a contribution made out of one's experience or insight or love, but by the manipulation of others through silent (and not-so-silent) threat. The victim compels others to come to his rescue or to behave as he wishes by holding them hostage to the prospect of his own further illness/meltdown/mental dissolution, or simply by threatening to make their lives so miserable that they do what he wants. — Steven Pressfield

It's a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death — Kirsten Beyer

Pulling back a stray lock of hair, she drew a question mark around her ear. p. 314 — Anthony Marra