Silencing The Noise Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Water sluices away soap and grime, even some of the shame comes with it. If she were to scrub for a thousand years she would not be clean, but she is too tired to care and she has grown accustomed to scars she cannot scour away. The sweat, the alcohol, the humid salt of semen and degradation, these she can cleanse. It is enough. She is too tired to scrub harder. Too hot and too tired, always.
At the end of her rinsing, she is happy to find a little water left in the bucket. She dips one ladleful and drinks it, gulping. And then in a wasteful, unrestrained gesture, she upends the bucket over her head in one glorious cathartic rush. In that moment, between the touch of the water, and the splash as it pools around her toes, she is clean. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The territorial anger lit his chest up like a bonfire, teeing off a blaze of power that roared in his body. — J.R. Ward

...people can surprise you if you let them in. — Kira Saito

The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten thousand miles away. — Dave Eggers

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope

God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold. — David Rabe

We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We're shaped by our choices. — Sarah Dalton