Relfecting Quotes & Sayings

He had been relfecting, while staring at the fringed blue petals, about love, about the long steady way his imperfect parents managed to love each other, and about his own deficient love for Dorrie, how it came and went, how he kept finding it and losing it again.
And now, here in this garden maze, getting lost, and then found, seemed the whole point, that and the moment of willed abandonment, the unexpected rapture of being blindly led. — Carol Shields

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me. — Jamie Campbell Bower

This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be. — Simone Elkeles

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse. — Jasper Fforde

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? — Florence Nightingale

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door. — Wendell Berry

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. — Scott Westerfeld

Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill?
Oh, thank goodness ... I thought I'd lost it. — W.C. Fields

And carefully ... tenderly ... taking my time with every brushstroke, I sketch the curve of her neck, apply the crimson of her lips, form her face into a two-dimensional tribute to her beauty. — Amy Plum

The destination of life is this eternal moment. — Alan Watts

Loken took a step forward. 'Commander,' he said, 'I will own up to ignorance and embrace illumination, but I will not be laughed at. — Dan Abnett

The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous. — John Cole

I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't. — Peter Hook