Sarinanas Quotes & Sayings

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues. — Curtis Hanson

[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands. — William Faulkner

If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations. — Stephen Colbert

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love. — Lisa Kleypas

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. — Benjamin Jowett

The day hope shall die, perplexity shall kill so many people. In so far as hope is alive, keep hoping! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Well, that's just all kinds of creepy," Puck muttered at my side, giving the doll a look of alarm. "If you see any clowns, do me a favor and don't point them out, okay? i'd rather live without the nightmares."
I was about to snap at him for putting the thought of killer clown dolls in my head ... — Julie Kagawa

But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is. — Neil Gaiman