Ruloff Kip Quotes & Sayings

I've found that if you expect the best of a person," Frank told him once, "you generally get it." "What happens when you don't?" Lucas asked. "Live and learn. Emphasis on learn. — Kristan Higgins

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Everyone is a raconteur without realizing it. We speak to our friends, we speak to our doctors and therapists about the nothing-meaning nonsense that goes on in our lives, but the difference in telling a story and complaining about the ills of one's life is in the delivery. We can talk about how someone slighted you at work, or we can talk about how that person looked when they promptly fell down the stairs a moment after disdaining you. There, you see, is the difference: people will often notice the main but not the nuance; they will notice the face of the person yelling at them and the pitch of their shouts, but will not notice the comfort that the ululations of agony and twisted limbs lying on the bottom stile can promise. — Michelle Franklin

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. — Dawna Markova

He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him.
And he would never let her go ... even if she begged for her freedom. — Nalini Singh

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him. — John Henry Carver

He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. — Jane Austen

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you're in the middle of it — Nick Cave

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them. — Ted Simon