Shakirat Akinde Quotes & Sayings

My knee struck a tree root as my vision went black. Suddenly, I was in a building at Haven Crest, kneeling on the floor. Blood, thick and clotted like canned cherries, crept down the walls. The lights above my head flickered off then on with a menacing hum. — Kady Cross

The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members. — Carter F. Smith

I want to live like a man. — Janet Morris

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin

Cancer is an expansionist disease; it invades through tissues, sets up colonies in hostile landscapes, seeking "sanctuary" in one organ and then immigrating to another. It lives desperately, inventively, fiercely, territorially, cannily, and defensively - at times, as if teaching us how to survive. To confront cancer is to encounter a parallel species, one perhaps more adapted to survival than even we are. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. — Mason Cooley

I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own. — Rick Yancey

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree. — Mike Birbiglia

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults. — Alan Watts