Sundblad Quotes & Sayings

Are any of us safe? How do we make it through? How, when you know you are going to leave this life whether you want to or not - when you know that you and everyone you love will leave this life - do we make it? I don't want to die. — Alison McGhee

When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame Santeuil had not the courage to refuse. But, as soon as Jean's uncle had gone home, she threw them away, saying that they already had more than enough in the way of luggage. And then Jean cried because he had been separated from the darling creatures which he would have liked to take with him to Paris, and because of his mother's naughtiness. — Marcel Proust

I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it. — Frank Iero

Don't give up on your own happy-evers. — Nora Roberts

The application of consistent, logical effort, over a prolonged period is the key to reaching your physical muscular potential. — Craig Cecil

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it. — Andrew Loog Oldham

happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game, — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour. — Niccolo Machiavelli

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process. — Hugh Hefner

Abbot Miron had sat sewing a patch on his trousers as we talked. He raised his intense luminous eyes to Gaston and said, "Years ago I had a postcard from my brother in New York, who had been to the top of the Empire State Building. He didn't investigate the foundations first, Pastor Gaston. The fact that it had been there forty years is proof that the foundations are good. The same with the Church, which has rested two thousand years on the truth. — Richard Wurmbrand

Butters," rumbled Skaldi Hair Ball. If he really had broken fingers, it didn't look like they were bothering him much. "When are you going to get in this ring and train like a man?"
"About five minutes after I get a functional lightsaber," Butters replied easily, much to Hair Ball's amusement. — Jim Butcher