Sdemon Quotes & Sayings

There are children on the island who go barefoot all summer and wear feathers in their hair, the Volkswagen vans in which their parents arrived in the '70s turning to rust in the forest. Every year there are approximately two hundred days of rain. There's a village of sorts by the ferry terminal: a general store with one gas pump, a health-food store, a real-estate office, an elementary school with sixty students, a community hall with two massive carved mermaids holding hands to form an archway over the front door and a tiny library attached. The rest of the island is mostly rock and forest, narrow roads with dirt driveways disappearing into the trees. — Emily St. John Mandel

Don't get cocky, ice-boy. I've been playing with humans since long before you ever thought of becoming one. — Julie Kagawa

I am the captain of my pain. — Nick Cave

When he came, he aimed it at my breasts, covering me with his milky seed, bathing me in long spurts of cum. Marking me. Claiming me. Reminding me once more that I was his. — Laurelin Paige

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers. — John Piper

You're supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth. — Steven Pressfield

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. — Vance Packard

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. — Daniel Barenboim

The moon taught me that only madness is pure. Once I'd made a start without it, my life was trodden territory, never really mine. At first I found this depressing, a sense of loss I could barely feel but which sapped me. In time I grew used to the feeling, which made it possible to bring more feet into my impure mind to track things up. If I couldn't go back, I might as well go forward. I — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott

I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives. — Iain Duncan Smith

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder. — Ben Shahn

I went inside my heart
to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear
the whole world weeping. — Rumi

You do not mess with the special investigators. — Lee Child

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom. — Constance Baker Motley