Summer Of Mariposas Quotes & Sayings

She walks into my life legs first, a long drink of water in the desert of my thirties. Her shoes are red; her eyes are green. She's an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris. She mixes my metaphors like a martini and serves up my heart tartare. They all do. Every time. They have to. It's that kind of story. — Catherynne M Valente

What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself.
What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You're lucky we didn't you attack on sight. — Andrea Cremer

She let out a long, slow breath and admitted to herself that she had fallen completely, irreversibly in love with him. — Ruth Cardello

Owen Zupp is an award-winning writer, published author and commercial pilot with nearly 17,000 hours of flight time. He has flown all manner of machines from antique biplanes to globe-trotting Boeings and shared the journey with readers around the world in a variety of publications. — Owen Zupp

The world could be standing still, and we'd all be just as dizzy. — Guadalupe Garcia McCall

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require. — Franz Grillparzer

For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an extraordinary venture: that of becoming apostles among your contemporaries to lead them to live their own experience of friendship with God, made Man, with God who has made himself my friend. — Pope Benedict XVI

I reframed the situation — Norman Ollestad

-The dream has a clear message: while binding shelves, surprisingly Joseph sheaf arose and stood upright. Others shelves stood round about Joseph's and bowed to his. -The message concluded with a definite purpose: the — David Oluremi

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong. — Rick Riordan

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open. — Anais Nin

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human. — Richard Gere

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. — P. J. O'Rourke

Her grandparents' house was an old crammed up space just like all the others there, but to Sofia it had the luxuries of a palace and the reverence of a church. — Effrosyni Moschoudi

A little damage makes people more interesting, right? — Catherine Hapka