Sor Quotes & Sayings

For now, this afternoon, you saw and touched
my heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remaining for such stories, your own heart must supply it. — Daoud Hari

Roth heaved a long sigh. "Look. I'm so - I'm sor ... " He took a deep breath, trying again. "I'm sorr ... " I turned my head toward him, waiting. "You're what? Sorry?" He looked chagrined, lips pursed. "I'm ... sorr-ree." "Oh, give me a break. You can't say I'm sorry?" "No." He looked me straight on, serious. "It's not in a demon's vocab. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it? — Quentin Tarantino

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. — Arthur Schopenhauer

P.39 - "Sor-ry," said Cassie, rolling her eyes and grinning at Damien. He grinned back, bonding away. I was taking a vague, unjustifiable dislike to Damien. I could see exactly why Hunt had assigned him to give the site tours - he was a PR dream, all blue eyes and diffidence - but I have never liked adorable, helpless men. I suppose it's the same reaction Cassie has to those baby-voiced, easily impressed girls whom men always want to protect: a mixture of distaste, cynicism and envy. — Tana French

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy. — Samantha Morton

If dual torment is to be my one condition,
both of loving and being loved I would quit. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

El clavo que sobresale siempre recibe un martillazo." The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer. We — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence. — Octavio Paz

And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

privation is the cause of appetite — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

To be friends.... or not... to be or not... to be or not.... — Deyth Banger

For those who are with greatness born
Should live not for themselves alone. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

I thought, Perhaps a man is never meant to be truly happy. Perhaps there is no such a thing in our world, after all. As — Patrick DeWitt