Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson David Petrakis Quotes & Sayings

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared. — Freeman Dyson

It is better to be feared than loved. - MACHIAVELLI — Kate Quinn

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it. — Alan Watts

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. — Cecil Castellucci

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream. — Kim Ki-duk

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.
Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe ... — Richard Bach

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly. — Deepak Chopra

But I look into her eyes and she looks into my eyes and we recognize it - the excitement of being here, the excitement of being now. And maybe I'm realizing what a part of it she is and maybe she's realizing what a part of it I am, because suddenly we're not crashing as much as we're combining. The chords swirling around us are becoming a tornado, and we are at the center of each other. My wrist touches hers right at the point of our pulses, and I swear I can feel it. That thrum. We are moving to the music and at the same time we are a stillness. I am not losing myself in the barrage. I am finding her. And she is - yes, she is finding me. The crowd is pressing in on us and the bassline is revealing everything and we are two people who are part of a lot more people, and at the same time we're our own part. There isn't loneliness, only this intense twoliness. — David Levithan

Her finger-nails were painted five different colours, looking like the paints in a child's paintbox; and she was as innocent as a child. — G.K. Chesterton

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,' he said.

'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez