Reindert Haarsma Quotes & Sayings

I glimpsed Alice in Wonderland.
Her voice smelled like an orange,
though I'd never peeled an orange.
I knocked on the walls, in a circle. — Yusef Komunyakaa

This is why we're here. To fight through the pain and, when possible, to relieve the pain of others. So simple. So hard to see. — Andre Agassi

I suspect that many of the horror stories about jail are greatly exaggerated, but still, I wouldn't want to pass out in one. — Jules Cassard

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. — Bono

I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation ... or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you ... I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too ... scary. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart ... Even if it means breaking my own. — S.C. Stephens

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous. — Shannon Hale

It will be over soon, finally, but the thing about hearts is that they want to keep beating. They want to keep beating. — Elizabeth Scott

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song. — Nick Cave

Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there was a struggle going on inside me to find some sort of creative or spiritual or aesthetic way of seeing the world and organizing it in my head. — Anne Lamott

Divorce can be a very destructive force and high powered, professional career women, like myself, don't have the luxury of time to fall apart. We want an alternative to months in therapy - something which will hold us together whilst helping us heal around our busy schedules that will also enable us to build healthy, future relationships which are drama-free. — Adele Theron

Hoping for some clue. But he — J.D. Robb

All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level. — George R R Martin