Torito Acosta Quotes & Sayings

She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt.
Kami whispered into Jared's hair, I'm always on your side. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother. — Mary MacLane

I started out wanting to coach football. — Lee Majors

It is my look they will flinch from now, my frown that they must fear. — George R R Martin

For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter. — Pierre Alechinsky

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. — John French Sloan

Man is an imitative creature. — Friedrich Schiller

I knew I had no lyrical quality, a small vocabulary, little gift of metaphor. The original and striking simile never occurred to me. Poetic flights ... were beyond my powers. On the other hand, I had an acute power of observation, and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed. I could put down in clear terms what I saw ... I knew that I should never write as well as I could wish, but I thought, with pains, that I could arrive at writing as well as my natural defects allowed. — W. Somerset Maugham

It never occurred to him to ask her what sort of demeanor she preferred. He didn't have to strategize or even scheme. Later he knew what the dread had been dread of. He hadn't had to promise her anything, it turned out. It was all for free. — David Foster Wallace

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be. — Alain De Botton

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of. — Edwidge Danticat