Southern Fiction Southernlit Quotes & Sayings

Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it. — Elizabeth Goudge

I'm not so old that I've lost my wits, you piece of fox dung! Tallstar snarled. — Erin Hunter

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat. — Adolf Galland

I suddenly knew, in a way I'd never had before, what want meant, and why it was dangerous and greedy and huge. — Amy Lane

Love set the soul on spiritual fire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars — Dante Alighieri

You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place! — Stephen Richards

In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin. — Bipasha Basu

Somehow I slogged through the gray soup of the rest of the day and made it all the way home to Rita's at the end of the day, where the soup gelled into an aspic of sensory deprivation. — Jeff Lindsay

Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice. — Stephen Kinzer

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together. — Lois Wyse

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. — Sam Keen

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family. — Francis Collins