Serezha Raev Quotes & Sayings

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died ... or worse. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was screaming and no one could hear. — Alexandra Bracken

The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective. — Edwin Schlossberg

If mankind is to have a new beginning among the stars, it will not come cheaply, for we are our own enemy and bring our demons with us as we have done throughout history. — Jay Allan

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one. — Herman Melville

As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c. — Thomas Hobbes

She dreamed that night of chickweed, which was a strange thing to dream about. Chickweed is a low, weedy little plant, not very distinguished. No one writes poetry comparing their lovers to chickweed (or if they do, the poems are rarely well received). — T. Kingfisher

Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national healthcare program for children, even though it's a lot more cost-effective to deal with children than with seniors. — Nicholas Kristof

Stapled to her gaze, sucked into the potency of her focus, only the trace of her blood in my mouth reassures me this is not a vision but a hallucinogenic pause from responsibility. — Poppet

Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does. (There are many scientists, however, who treat it as a belief system. Be wary of them.) — Terry Pratchett

If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. — Walter Mosley

She smiles sweet enough to give me a fuckin' cavity. — C.M. Stunich