Servidio New Castle Quotes & Sayings

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are,
/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hi, I have just added my new novel, "Incessant Expectations" for your reading enjoyment. It is about commercial salmon fishing on the Oregon coast circa 1976. It is fiction. The industry doesn't exist anymore. A young farmer from the dry country in Southwestern Colorado visits the wet Northwestern Oregon coast, seeking a summer job after his dad's farm is sold in the spring. He has spent his first 22 years in isolation, doing hard labor on the family farm. He knows hard work but has little social experience. During his summer of 1976 he learns about the ocean, fishing, and women. — Kenneth Fenter

Remembering and forgiving can be contrary things — Marilynne Robinson

I used to wonder why ... Mum kept having babies ... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing
at least at the time when you were actually making the children. The fact that it would cost you something later on, well, the working-class people never looked ahead in those days. — Margaret Powell

But Iris walks through the project every day. Alice asked, "Isn't it dangerous?" Iris said, "I don't know. I guess it could be, if you're afraid. I'm not because it's just something I've always done. I mean, if you live in it you aren't scared of it. — Josephine Humphreys

She breathes in as I breathe out and her lungs fill with the air that was inside of me. I love her completely and I love giving her life as she gives me life. I breathe in her quintessence and it's cathartic. — Ella Dominguez

The worst is waking up in a hospital. Your parents are there, crying. Or your mother is yelling at the doctors and nurses. You come back wrecked. You ruin everyone's day. It won't happen again. I promise. — Julie Anne Peters

When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is. — Chris Rock