Shailja Collins Quotes & Sayings

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence. — Jaggi Vasudev

We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested.
The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid.
And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us. — Daniel Abraham

Oh, no, not likely. No one capable of tragedy could have married Mrs. Lanoline. — E. M. Forster

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism. — Laura Mennell

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke. — Plato

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character. — Zig Ziglar

I was quite shocked at the tone I took and the judgements I had of the relationship that she embarked on, you know, sex with a minor. But it's the stuff of great drama [in Notes On A Scandal]. — Cate Blanchett

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn't work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.

Sit down, and write. — M. Kirin

If Somebody disrespects me they will pay for it. I promise — Anderson Silva

The world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. — Margaret Atwood

For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat. — Daniel Clowes

Norman stirred, turned, and then fell into a darkness deeper and more engulfing than the swamp. — Robert Bloch

When it comes to sex, no pairing is beyond belief. — Stephen King