Slave Girl Buchi Emecheta Quotes & Sayings

The interesting thing, in the photograph, was how the fragile little knock-kneed boy - smiling sweetly, pristine in his sailor suit - was also the old man who'd clasped my hand while he was dying: two separate frames, superimposed upon each other, of the same soul. And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate. There wasn't a single meaning. There were many meanings. It was a riddle expanding out and out and out. — Donna Tartt

Life Is to short to read book I am not enjoying — Melissa Marr

people you work with don't want to hear how hard your life is or how hard you work. They care how well you do your job. — Liz Weber

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. — Shane Koyczan

I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico. — Vicente Fox

I think as an actor ... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity. — Michael Mando

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion. — Allan Lokos

You never laugh," she said. "You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention."
For a moment he was silent. Then, "You," he said, half reluctantly. "You make me laugh. From the moment you hit me with that bottle."
"It was a jug," she said automatically.
His lips quirked up at the corners. "Not to mention the way you always correct me. With that funny look on your face when you do it. And the way you shouted at Gabriel Lightwood. And even the way you talked back to de Quincey. You make me ... " He broke off, looking at her, and she wondered if she looked the way she felt - stunned and breathless. — Cassandra Clare

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us. — C.S. Lewis

We are many. Our number is greater than the stars. We are more than infinity. — Brian Keene

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing. — Alice Waters

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen

Not knowing what will happen makes life fun. — Akechi Mitsuhide

Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there - to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it. — John Welwood