Shonagh Harpur Quotes & Sayings

Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't. — Jill Scott

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on. — Elizabeth Wein

Perfectly formed life, equally contingent, equally without purpose. Blind luck, to arrive in the world with your properly formed parts in the right place, to be born to parents who were loving, not cruel, or to escape, by geographical or social accident, war or poverty. And therefore to find it so much easier to be virtuous. — Ian McEwan

Human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium ... — Terry Pratchett

Shane said, "Don't worry. I'll protect you."
Claire hit him in the shoulder. "I don't need you to protect me."
"Then why am I going first?"
"So you can take the first punch while I throw the second?"
"So I'm bait? Ouch. You've been in Morganville way too long, girl. — Rachel Caine

Prayer is divine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. — Matthew Arnold

Everyone is a somebody to someone. — Jeffrey Fry

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California. — Tila Tequila

A severe example is the common modern American phrase "I could care less," which, it turns out, means the same thing as "I couldn't care less. — Joel M. Hoffman