Stiltskin Quotes & Sayings

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct — Joyce Carol Oates

She would lie awake,
Every night I'd hear her cry
Her mind in slow decay,
I guess she couldn't take goodbye — Ray Wilson

Rumpel. Stiltskin. I heard Mother's whisper reaching across years and mountains and valleys. Rumpel. Stiltskin. Rumpelstiltskin. The name, my name, shook in my chest. It traveled through my brain and down my arms and fingertips to my legs and toes. The sound of it echoed so loud inside of me I felt I would burst. — Liesl Shurtliff

There were almost no detailed records of the detentions and interrogations at the CIA's COBALT detention facility in 2002, and almost no such records for the CIA's GRAY detention site, also in Country [ - ]. At CIA detention facilities outside of Country [ - ], the CIA kept increasingly less-detailed records of its interrogation activities over the course of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. — Senate Select Committee On Intelligence

He made her want to believe in fairy tales and lies. In males who were decent and loving. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A stiltskin is magic at its greatest. Pure magic, un-meddled-with and more powerful than any enchantment or spell. — Liesl Shurtliff

If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me. — Jon Foreman

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high. — Iain Duncan Smith

Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn't want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line. — Gina Greenlee

Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we? — Daniel Henninger

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. — Henry David Thoreau

Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days. — Jack Youngblood

drama is by its very nature alien to genuine polyphony; drama may be multi-leveled, but it cannot contain multiple worlds; it permits only one, and not several, systems of measurement. Secondly, — Mikhail Bakhtin

I would savor every moment of my life that remained, suck its marrow, crunch its bones. And when the end came ... well, I would not be alone. That was a precious and holy thing. — N.K. Jemisin

He reminded me of the typical soap-opera star. His words were fake, his smile was fake, and his very presence affected me like nails on a chalkboard. — Jamie McGuire

...they had succumbed to an impersonal and anonymous mode of consciousness which precluded personal feeling and which was devoid of a secure sense of self-identity. Everything tended to be seen in 'abstract' terms, as theoretical possibilities which could be contemplated and compared but to the concrete realization of which people were unwilling to commit themselves. If they attended to their own attitudes or emotions it was through a thick haze of pseudo-scientific expressions or cliche-ridden phrases which they had picked up from books or newspapers rather than in the direct light of their own inner experience. Living had become a matter of knowing rather than doing; accumulating information and learning things by rote as opposed to taking decisions that bore the stamp of individual passion or conviction. — Patrick L. Gardiner