Sidenotesim Quotes & Sayings

Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady bouquet of recognition which can escape into the cognitive world. — Jack Welpott

Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested. — Terry Pratchett

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes. — Laura Lippman

I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions. — Alexandra Bracken

I was staring at you and you were staring at me and right then it was sort of like love, wasn't it? — Junot Diaz

Even in a hero's heart
Discretion is the better part. — Charles Churchill

Descansado," he tells me.
"What does that mean?"
"Descansado," Rip says. "It means 'take it easy,'" he whispers, clutching the child next to him.
"Yeah?"
"It means relax. — Bret Easton Ellis

Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To hate things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it. — Lila Bowen

Old men ought to be explorers. — T. S. Eliot

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others. — Isabel Allende