Tomanova Quotes & Sayings

Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time. We cannot get to an appointment before we arrive - or after. It is only at the instant of our arrival that we can arrive, and that is always at exactly the right moment, the perfect moment, the only possible moment. — Wu Wei

Allow me to share one simple and very frightening truth with you: your real enemy is someone who knows you. And the better they know you, and the closer they are to you, the greater is their capacity to do you harm.
Total strangers who get a little angry and lose control at sporting events are no real threat, if the proper caution is used. Protective fathers of pretty fourteen-year-old girls will shout and sputter, get loud and use strong language, but in the end they will retreat into their warm houses and leave you alone.
But a person who shares a part of your life, who lives with you and knows all your habits and has a keen insight into what you value most in all the world - this is the person to fear. — David Klass

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies. — Miriam Toews

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. — Samuel Beckett

The college library was a high beautiful space, designed and built and paid for by people who believed that those who sat at the long tables before open books - even those who were hung-over, sleepy, resentful, and uncomprehending - should have space above them, panels of dark gleaming wood around them, high windows bordered with Latin admonitions, through which to look at the sky. For a few years before they went into schoolteaching or business or began to rear children, they should have that. And now it was my turn and I should have it too. — Alice Munro

BETTER PRETEND TO BE A NOBODY AND BE SOMEBODY THAN TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEBODY AND ARE A NOBODY, BECAUSE MY LORD WAS A SOMEBODY, BUT LIVED LIKE A NOBODY AS A RESULT EXALTED AS THE GREATEST EVER LIVED. — James C. Uwandu

She'd always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn't want it. — Gillian Flynn