Tenebrous Gateway Quotes & Sayings

No girl has ever offered to feed my enemies' fingernails to her cat before."
"Lisa's cat. And don't flatter yourself. At the moment, I'm tempted to feed him your fingernails. — Cecily White

I remember my youth ... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. — Joseph Conrad

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. — Glen Duncan

I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to think of stuff that's real broad, but the more personal it is, the more universal it is. All my friends go through the same stuff. — Roseanne Barr

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try
without let up
to break you. — Mary Karr

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. — Pierre Corneille

They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's glory. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger. — V.E Schwab

I was too young to understand what letting you go meant when I was eighteen. Now I know, and I don't plan on giving up this time. — J.B. Hartnett

During the night she had told me, 'I feel old. I miss being young.' She curled her arms over her chest, looking already like all the dead Papillons I hade seen littering the grass beneath the sycamores on campus. Unlike any of the other Papillons, though, she was in my apartment, curled in my lap. I missed being young too. Only I had thousands of days to go. — Maggie Stiefvater

What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rather the misdirection of these qualities toward and isolated and false goal, with a consequent tension and sultriness in the atmosphere. Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen. In argument, for example, they will not shout or wave their arms. But, I assure you, they are nevertheless, burning with subdued fires. — Hermann Hesse

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ... — Eliza Haywood