Sylphid Basket Quotes & Sayings

I've always been drawn to people with problems. Not just physical problems, but mental problems too. Like depressed people or killers, all that stuff. — Amy Sedaris

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them. — Gail Godwin

If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time. — James Richardson

I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized - folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior. — Shane Claiborne

I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me. — Kate Morton

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life. — Jamaica Kincaid

The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America. — Ruhollah Khomeini

To preempt rejection she dresses to exaggerate her difference when the true enemy is not the world's disdain but its indifference. He is surely the next item in a dreary procession and cannot be seen for all those previous disappointments. — Colson Whitehead