Saffy Tiger Quotes & Sayings

Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better. — Larry Winget

What I Suddenly Understand
My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life.
> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim. — Jennifer Egan

I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true. — Dara Horn

I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth. — Jane Yolen

Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. — Alyce Cornyn-Selby

The Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man
Amid the doctors in the Temple at twelve, between mother & host at Cana implored too soon, in the middle of disciples, the midst of the mob, between High-Priest and Procurator, among the occupiers,
between the malefactors, and 'stetit in medio, et dixit, pax vobis' and 'ascensit ad mediam Personarum et caelorum,' dear my Lord,mercy a sinner nailed dead-centre too, pray not to late,-
for also Ezra stood between the seven & the six, restoring the new Law. — John Berryman

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us. — Mary Oliver

Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'
Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.'
Merchant: 'Well spoken ... — Hermann Hesse

People are often asking me if the things in my short stories really happened to me. I always think this is the same question to ask of a life - did this really happen to me? The body doesn't lie. But when we bring language to the body, isn't it always already an act of fiction? With its delightfully designed composition and color saturations and graphic patterns? Its style and vantage point? Its insistence on the mind's powerful force of recollection in the face of the raw and brutal fact that the only witness was the body? — Lidia Yuknavitch

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances. — Jodi Kantor

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? — Logan Pearsall Smith

The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant. — James Baldwin

I've learned that you cannot fulfill your destiny if you're not being yourself; you can't fulfill your destiny, trying to be somebody else. We are created unique not so that we can fit in, but so that we can stand out. — Jeanette Coron