The Originals Ep 8 Quotes & Sayings

There's something very reassuring ... about the written record. — John Updike

He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely ... — Corrie Ten Boom

Alchemy, however, began in the first century BC, most probably in Egypt. Indeed, scholars believe that the "chem" in alchemy (and hence in chemistry) is from a Coptic word "khem" which means the Black Land, that is, Egypt, for after the Nile River rises and floods the land each year, it looks black. That alchemy probably began in Egypt makes sense. The Egyptians were some of the best metal workers of the ancient world. From — Benjamin Wiker

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. — Salman Rushdie

That's pretty good, for a young girl
from Fever 1793 — Laurie Halse Anderson

To a Boy

Boy,
you are a hidden watering place under the trees
where, as the day darkens, gentle beasts with calm eyes
appear one after another.

Even if the sun drops flaming at the end of the fields where grass stirs greenly
and a wind pregnant with coolness and night-dew agitates your leafy bush,
it is only a premonition.

The tree of solitude that soars with ferocity,
crowned with a swirling night,
still continues in your dark place.

-Translated from the Japanese by Hiroaki Sato — Mutsuo Takahashi

Soul mates is what you aim for, but soup snakes is what you get sometimes. — Mindy Kaling

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. — Denis Diderot