Sotto Quotes & Sayings

As the body rots, so does the cage that traps us in our wordly concerns. When my legs become too weak to carry my body, I stopped pacing with worry. When my fingers became twisted, I stopped pointing blame. When I lost my sight, I stopped seeing illusions. It may be dark in the pot that I am simmering in, but I can see more clearly than I have ever seen in my life. — Samantha Sotto

...but youth was for making such mistakes. — Samantha Sotto

The gnomons's shadow falls where it falls - and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us. — Samantha Sotto

That is why I taught you how to trade, because that's what life is - a barter of choices and consequences. — Samantha Sotto

But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead. — Samantha Sotto

If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches. — Samantha Sotto

Meet. Date. Run. — Samantha Sotto

I'm sorry, but you just can't fit fabulous into a backpack. — Samantha Sotto

I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be. — Samantha Sotto

I said you weren't inconsequential. No one is. We change at least one person's life just by being born. If you don't believe me, go ask your mother. The fellows who write history books may not think that's so special. I happen to disagree. Isabelle and her family may be long gone, but because they lived, regardless of how small their lives may have been, I believe they are worth remembering, even if only by strangers.
- BEFORE EVER AFTER — Samantha Sotto

She finally found the strength to wake up to the emptiness inside her. — Samantha Sotto

Things couldn't end if she didn't let them begin. — Samantha Sotto

I'll always have something that not even time can take away. Pain ... because when I've forgotten everything else, I'll feel that ache ... that tightness in my throat ... that heaviness in my chest ... and know that I loved a woman once and she loved me back. It's proof that I existed and so did she. — Samantha Sotto

A kiss can be dreadfully terrifying for the males of our species, I'm afraid." Rose said knowingly. "Sex is easy. All they really need is a few good thrusts. But when they kiss, they open themselves up and let you in. And that, my dear, makes some men's balls shrink to the size of raisins."
Shelley snorted with laughter.
Dex strode up to her. "Did someone say raisins? I'm starving."
"You might try asking Max for some," Shelley said. "I'm sure he has at least two. — Samantha Sotto

Dying is not the real tragedy, Shelley."
"It's not?"
"Forgetting is. — Samantha Sotto

Will you let me hold your hand as we outrun reason, brush past elephants, race up steps, tumble down hills, roll in the hay, leap over crumbling walkways, and dangle our legs over ledges? — Samantha Sotto

The Galvanick Lucipher is of antique design. Ghnxh, who is about a hundred years old, can only smile in condescension at Waterhouse's U.S Navy flashlight. In the sotto voce one might use to correct an enourmous social gaffe, he explains that the galvanic lucifer is of such a superior design as to make any further reference to the Navy model a grating embarrassment for everyone concerned. — Neal Stephenson

For once he wanted to wake up the next day and feel something. — Samantha Sotto

I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire. — Jim Butcher

I dream about home.. and it just makes it difficult to wake up. — Samantha Sotto

Death is never swift ... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After — Samantha Sotto

Will the real Slim Shady, please stand up?! — Tito Sotto

Dying is not the real tragedy. Forgetting is. — Samantha Sotto

There are other ways to live forever. — Samantha Sotto

I was coming up on a cross street when a man wearing a filthy suit stepped out from around the corner of the building ahead and directly into my path. Bent with age, he turned bleak red eyes to me and stared. Pressed with his chest to both hands he carried a paperback book as soiled and bereft as his suit. Are you one of the real ones or not? he demanded. And after a moment, when I failed to answer, he walked on, resuming his sotto voce conversation.
A chill passed through me. Somehow, indefinably, I felt, felt with the kind of baffled, tacit understanding that we have in dreams , that I had just glimpsed one possible future self. — James Sallis

We all need to take a proper break once in a while. — Samantha Sotto

You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv. — Samantha Sotto

Messieurs," interjects the Baroness. "If you insist on communicating sotto voce, we might as well adjourn to my lodgings." A light pinking in her cheek as she ponders the implications. "In my younger days, I should have balked at bringing two gentlemen home. I'm now at the age when it might ectually enhance my reputation. — Louis Bayard

I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't ... don't want to be the one left behind. — Samantha Sotto

Why did I leave you? I loved you too much to stay. — Samantha Sotto

Life is a barter of choice and consequences. — Samantha Sotto

My dear," Rose said, "you might be surprised at how much happiness you can find in the pages of the shortest love stories. Unlike penises, their length truly does not count. — Samantha Sotto

Is it life threatening? they asked. They said it slightly sotto voce, but you could hear the thirst for sensation right through it: when people get a chance to come close to death without having it touch them personally, they never miss the opportunity. — Herman Koch

Life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short, and fragile shot glass. We shouldn't waste a single drop. — Samantha Sotto

Growing old is to be set free. It is a slow and long-simmering process that extracts you from what you are really made of. But it requires acceptance. You cannot put a flailing chicken in a boiling pot. You must accept the heat and the pain with serenity so that the full flavors of your life maybe released. — Samantha Sotto

She just couldn't bear to listen to the echo inside her chest. Nothing was lonelier than the limping beat of half a heart. — Samantha Sotto

Antoine knew what it was like to flee, to shed a life as though it were a cloak. He had learned to pack light. The less he had, the less he had to leave behind. — Samantha Sotto

It appears that you were meant to be mine only for a little while. — Samantha Sotto

No! I don't feel any pressure right now! — Tito Sotto

We change at least one person's life just by being born — Samantha Sotto

Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time. — Samantha Sotto

You can make a child believe a lot of things. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny ... just about anything really, except love. You cannot make a child believe you love him if you don't — Samantha Sotto

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations. — Alexander Cockburn

Being a stay-at-home mom to one child, a baby, when you're a mom of one is not really a full-time job," she says sotto voce, as if revealing a dirty secret. "You've got a lot of other time. I think that's where all the canning and the cloth diapering and that frenzy comes in. You have this time vacuum. It really isn't that hard to look after one kid all day long. — Emily Matchar

But knowledge and acceptance are two very different things. — Samantha Sotto

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger. — Allan Bloom

Growing old is to be set free, Brother. It is aslow and long-simmering process that extracts from you what you are really made of. But it requires acceptance. You cannot put a flailing chicken in a boiling pot. You must accept the heat and the pain with serenity so that the full flavors of your life may be released.
You may see this as decay, and it is. But it is also much more than that. As the body rots, so does the cage that traps us in our worldly concerns. When my legs became too weak to carry my body, I stopped pacing with worry. When my fingers became twisted, I stopped pointing blame. When I lost my sight, I stopped seeing illusions. It may be dark in the pot that I am simmering in, but I can see more clearly than I have ever seen in my life. I can see you, Brother, and I know who you are. — Samantha Sotto

All choices intersect. — Samantha Sotto

Love's language is hyperbole, but whispered,
sibilant similes and promises sotto voce.
It's easy to imagine you've misheard, — Richard Hoffman

Copying is the highest form of flattery — Tito Sotto

Children know when they're loved. It's when you grow up that you're more easily fooled. — Samantha Sotto

If last night proved anything, it's that life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short - and fragile - shot glass. — Samantha Sotto