Retrenched In Afrikaans Quotes & Sayings

Whoever you are: in the evening step out
of your room, where you know everything;
yours is the last house before the far-off:
whoever you are.
With your eyes, which in their weariness
barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold,
you lift very slowly one black tree
and place it against the sky: slender, alone.
And you have made the world. And it is huge
and like a word which grows ripe in silence.
And as your will seizes on its meaning,
tenderly your eyes let it go ... — Rainer Maria Rilke

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness. — Kahlil Gibran

General notions are generally wrong. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Babe," Ranger said. "You're looking a little strung out. Is there anything I should know?"
I'm on a sugar withdrawal. I've given up desert and it's all I can think about." That had been true five minutes ago. Now that Ranger was standng in front of me I was thinking a cupcake wasn't what I actually needed.
Maybe I can help you get your mind off doughnuts," Ranger said.
My mouth dropped open, and I think some drool might have dribbled out. — Janet Evanovich

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. — John Malkovich

Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young. — Doyle Brunson

We already have posterity," I said.
"When?'
"We were babies and we grew old — Edwidge Danticat

The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw away at you forever. — Terri Cheney

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup