Sobotka Roper Quotes & Sayings

We've known each other for a while," I said. "And our feelings just ... blossomed."
"Like fungus off rotted meat?" Josh snarked. — Diana Peterfreund

Honor is more costly than gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Memory - uncorrected, uncorroborated, and (by its very nature) unreliable - is what allows us to retroactively create the blueprints of our lives, because it is often impossible to make sense of our lives when we're inside them, when the narratives are still unfolding: This can't be happening. Why is this happening? Why is this happening now? Only by looking backward are we able answer those questions, only through the assist of memory. And who knows how memory will answer? Who will it blame? Who will it forgive? — Stephanie Kallos

Then again, could you go through a colonoscopy with someone and not be wedded for life? — Deb Caletti

I will love you forever," I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead.
I will hold you to that." His face was grim and his voice was sober - he
touched my handprint of chaos as he said it, and I knew in my bones that it was a solemn vow, and not a sweet or a kind offering of love at all. Green would make me live if he had to crack the foundations of the world. — Amy Lane

I wanted him to know that you are mine." Violet's voice is soft. "But I'm not yours." I take a few long, deep, ragged breaths. "But that doesn't mean I don't want you to be. — M. Leighton

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. — Malcolm Gladwell

We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods. — Maurice Samuel

Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly, — Marian Phair

If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life. — Arthur Ashe

It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it. — Kathleen Glasgow

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers. — Ali Liebegott