Restrata Wound Quotes & Sayings

An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else. — Tullian Tchividjian

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding. — Tommy McCarthy

But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading. — William Shakespeare

And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion. — Vladimir Nabokov

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. — Christopher Hitchens

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow. — Keri Hulme

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act. — Debra Wilson