Shipwrecked Crew Quotes & Sayings

The young woman at his side surveyed Tess in one quick, lethal glance. Tess could almost hear her brain clicking away on the sort of points system that some women used: Taller - 1 point for her. Hippy - 1 point against. Big breasts, long hair - 2 points for. Hair, unstyled, worn in a braid down her back - 2 points against. Older than me - 3 points against. Face, okay. Clothes, not stylish, not embarrassing. Tess wasn't sure of her final score, but apparently it was just a little too high. The woman gave her a terrifyingly fake smile, one that suggested she had little experience with real ones, and held out her hand. — Laura Lippman

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

This was what happened when you spent months locked away from the world: you regressed. — Kimberly McCreight

Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu:
All our dream-worlds may come true.
Fairy lands are fearsome too.
As I wander far from view
Read, and bring me home to you. — Salman Rushdie

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process. — Edward Tufte

History is the insight to foresight — Dr Lloyd Magangeni

Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be. — Roberto Bolano

You know my biggest fear is this: That all my hard work. All my good intentions. All my studying. Have been nothing more than a building of a wall between me and life. — Hal Hartley

Never be focused on yourself. — Sunday Adelaja

When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this. — Philip Carr-Gomm

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. — Robert Breault