Reyelts Quotes & Sayings

Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up? — Rick Yancey

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try. — Edward Hirsch

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet — Max Beerbohm

Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe. — Paul Rusesabagina

At this very moment, the thumb of Ricardo's hovering shadow jabbed her in her left eye, revealing for all the world the shallowness of her water table. Rice could have been planted at that instant on the terraces of her flesh and sprouted in strength and beauty in the floods that overwhelmed her from that moment on through all the afternoon. — Grace Paley

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything. — Ronald Burkle

Do you know what the worst part of losing him is? The regret -- that he left before we could somehow find each other again. And now all I think about are the things I wish I'd told him before he died. — Frances Norris

He knew that to be careless in dress and manner required more confidence than to be careful. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colours draining fast. I had to get away from that town. — John Fante

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us. — Charles Spurgeon

There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live. — Michael Meade

They always blame America first! — Jeane Kirkpatrick