Shukria Raad Quotes & Sayings

She didn't fall, but oh, her heart went icy in her chest. She sat down hard upon the steps. Too numb to walk. Her heart was cold and white as chalk. — Patrick Rothfuss

the wind blows hard tonight
and it's a cold wind
and I think about
the boys on the row.
I hope some of them have a bottle of
red.
it's when you're on the row
that you notice that
everything
is owned
and that there are locks on
everything.
this is the way a democracy
works:
you get what you can,
try to keep that
and add to it
if possible.
this is the way a dictatorship
works too
only they either enslave or
destroy their
derelicts.
we just forgot ours.
in either case
it's a hard
cold
wind. — Charles Bukowski

She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to. — Darnell Lamont Walker

How can I discover truth I thought and that thought led me nowhere. No one would tell me the truth. — Jean Rhys

Seth always had to force Georgie to go to parties. Once she was there, she was fine. Once she was there, she was usually great
if not the life of the party, certainly one of its most valuable players. People (new people, strangers) made Georgie nervous. And nervous Georgie was much more extroverted than regular Georgie. Nervous Georgie was practically manic. — Rainbow Rowell

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat. — T. Boone Pickens

When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison. — Yuval Noah Harari

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did. — Gordon Ramsay

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood! she said. — D.H. Lawrence

Vulnerability has to happen for love to be real. — Pam Godwin

You're a trouble-maker. What race do you belong to, anyhow?' 'The human race,' I said. 'I come from the womb and I'm bound for the tomb, the same as you, the same as King George the Six, the same as Johnny Squat. — Joseph Mitchell