Svrta Quotes & Sayings

Your father, madam, was fully cremated. I made absolutely certain."
Alexia swallowed silently and then said fervently, "Thank you, Floote. — Gail Carriger

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. — Elizabeth Warren

Someone who can make things happen must be alerted. — Suzanne Finnamore

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths. — Adrienne Rich

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult. — Alison Moyet

I didn't know what to say to that. I just stared at him. He was right, of course he was right, but ... "I can't do my job like this."
"No," he said, "you can't."
Then suddenly I felt the first tear slide down my face.
"No crying," he said.
Another tear joined the first. I fought not to wipe at them.
His hand dropped to his side and he took a deep breath. "That's not fair. Don't cry."
"I'm sorry, I don't mean to, but you're right, I think. I'm pregnant, damn it, not crippled. — Laurell K. Hamilton

...the natural force, the core of the struggle to exist is the desire to not just survive, but thrive. And to thrive is to feed on victims, ever more victims... — Steven Erikson

There must be, and, if we are honest, there always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot fix, control, explain, change, or even understand. For Jesus and for his followers, the crucifixion became the dramatic symbol of that necessary and absurd stumbling stone. — Richard Rohr

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. — Anonymous

Picture the poor Arab private. He knows no one in his unit gives a shit about him; after all, he doesn't give a shit about any of them, either. They're not family. What happens when that private is placed in the loneliest position in the world, the modern battlefield? He runs at the first sign things are going badly. (He'll be fine as long as they are going well, though. Note: things rarely go well.) — Tom Kratman

Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the dentist's office, waiting to be called to the chair; they are read on transcontinental plane trips instead of watching banal and vulgar films spin out the time between our coasts; they are read by discerning and well-informed men and women who seem to feel that narrative fiction can contribute to our understanding of one another and the sometimes bewildering world around us. — John Cheever

If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others. — Ching Hai

I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the bug of philosophy and wanted to be a philosophy professor. I went to graduate school and quickly discovered it was impossible for a woman in those days - this was the early fifties - to be a philosopher, so I gave that up. — Alix Kates Shulman