Scortaru Quotes & Sayings

It was summer here and he wondered if there existed a different season for every corner of this world in this moment and the moments to come. Whether if you traveled fast and far enough you could witness a year passing in a single journey. — Paul Yoon

The big talent is persistence. — Octavia E. Butler

Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life. — Tessa Dare

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. — Harlan F. Stone

Some days I'm sure I'll be unravelled,
That I'm just a piece of thread,
Woven from everything I've heard
And every book I've ever read.
That someone will find my ending
Or a spot where I've worn thin,
And they'll pull me right apart
Back to the place where I begin,
Until they've found that every fibre
Isn't one to call my own,
Its from the thoughts and works of others
Thats I've been so crudely sewn.
And there's nothing I can make
Or think or do or be or say,
That isn't someone else
Woven in just a different way.
Then once I come undone,
Once who I thought I was grows small,
What if I look at all that's left
And there is nothing there at all? — Emily Hanson

Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I'd gotten someone killed.
The price people seem to pay for crossing my path. — Marie Lu

She didn't want him to speak, she was suddenly not even sure he *meant* to speak. It occurred to her, strangely, that he might sing.
"Don't." Her command was sharp.
He didn't — Marie Rutkoski

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind. — Samuel Johnson

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out. — Sara Shepard