Ron Rash Serena Quotes & Sayings

Shahrzad closed her eyes in defeat and slid her palms to his chest. Then she reached behind him in an embrace of sandalwood and sun. Khalid wrapped both his arms around Shahrzad, and they stood together under the dome of the Grand Portico, with the indecipherable art of love poems giving silent testament. — Renee Ahdieh

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. — C.S. Lewis

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. — Clifford Geertz

He suspected the workers thought of Serena as beyond gender, the same as they might some phenomenon of nature such as rain or lightning. — Ron Rash

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent. — Tim Curry

Bellona used to be a pretty good town. — Samuel R. Delany

He'd felt incredibly lucky they'd found one another, though Serena had already told him their meeting wasn't mere good fortune but inevitability. — Ron Rash

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. — Alden Nowlan

A high percentage of vegan men look like lesbians. — Dov Davidoff

When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!' — Si Robertson

A kind of annihilation, was what Serena called their coupling, and though Pemberton would never have thought to describe it that way, he knew her words had named the thing exactly. — Ron Rash

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. — Felix Adler

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.' — Ron Rash

Just as a spring, through the continual pressure of a foreign body, at last loses its elasticity, so does the mind if it has another person's thoughts continually forced upon it. And just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read if one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost. Indeed, it is the same with mental as with bodily food: scarcely the fifth part of what a man takes is assimilated; the remainder passes off in evaporation, respiration, and the like. — Arthur Schopenhauer

He couldn't imagine such a moment, believed instead that Serena's beauty was like certain laws of math and physics, fixed and immutable — Ron Rash

All we'll ever need is within each other," Serena said, her voice barely more than a whisper. "Even when we have our child, it will only be an image of what we already are. — Ron Rash

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. — Bob Riley