Shiffrin Boyfriend Quotes & Sayings

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism ... [because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions. — Price Pritchett

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter. — Lemony Snicket

To the last we will have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets, that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished. No one can accept that an imperial has been annihilated by men with bows and arrows and rusty old guns who live in tents and never wash and cannot read or write. And who am I to jeer at life-giving illusions? Is there any better way to pass these last days than in dreaming of a saviour with a sword who will scatter the enemy hosts and forgive us the errors that have been committed by others in our name and grant us a second chance to build our earthly paradise? — J.M. Coetzee

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you
never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you
ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting
moment. — Sarah MacLean

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. — James Russell Lowell

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph? — J.K. Rowling

All things are connected. There is no separation, except in the mind, which is most powerful, after reality. — Nancy LaRonda Johnson

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way. — Jack Nicholson

But I think where a person is born and dies is very important. You can't choose where you're born, but where you die you can
to some degree. — Haruki Murakami

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks. — Chris Pratt

Just tell me one thing before you leave, Ava." His voice prickles at my senses ... His face is serious, but still stunning. "How loud do you think you'll scream when I fuck you? — Jodi Ellen Malpas

I decide that I like the idea of Liz as a dragon. One of my favorite storybooks was about goodluck dragons, how their arrival always means something wonderful lies ahead. If that's true, then, as far as I'm concerned, Liz can spit as much fire as she wants. And if I stand near enough to it, maybe I'll glow a little, too. — Jen Violi

I've wondered how someone could make me so incredibly happy if God didn't exist — Colleen Hoover

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination. — Sandra Alex