Southern Gentleness Quotes & Sayings

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. — Sophie Swetchine

Until I was ready, until I could let go of my past, we both knew that we could never really be together. — Bella Forrest

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. — Amy Tan

Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house. — Lisa Eley

If intellectual life involves a certain amount of self-awareness about alternative interpretations or a certain amount of tentativeness in exploring the connection between evidence and conclusions, it was hard to find any encouragement for the intellectual life in the self-assured dogmatism of fundamentalism. — Mark A. Noll

When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images-things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit. — China Mieville

That's what everyone wanted, in the end: to be part of something bigger. — Lauren Oliver

I know we could accept the things we can't be for each other, and even turn it into the poetic tragedy of our lives. Or we could act. I want to act. I want this to happen. Kosi is a good — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie