Shekema Douglas Quotes & Sayings

Nine days after Perreault first saw the woman in black, an Indonesian mother of four came out of her tent long enough to claim that the mermaid had risen, fully-formed, from the very center of the quake.
One of her boys, hearing this, said that he'd heard it was the other way around. — Peter Watts

The firebird drops a feather, was his summary, and if you're fool enough to pick it up and chase the bird itself, you're in for trouble. — Susanna Kearsley

Only a fool would underestimate a man with nothing to lose. — Lance Conrad

My father wrote: "Always question where your loyalties lie. The people you trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it, and those you treasure the most, will, without fail, abuse it. — Emily Thorne

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done. — Rachel Johnson

Speaking from experince, there are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their heads. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.
Drugs redirect the fall. They cushion it. Give you a parachute. Or maybe just a flashlight and scuba gear. I don't know how you look at the inside of your head
what metaphor you choose
but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful.
For a time. — James St. James

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength. — Margaret Oliphant

Amen,' I say, delayed, and now, like many of these people, I pray for the first time in years. — Markus Zusak

When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us.
There's no place like that anywhere in the world.'
Rumi — Rumi

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony. — Apollonius Of Tyana

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. — Henry Rollins

An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana