Toryn Wells Quotes & Sayings

I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on. — Richard Armour

In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the stories of tired tradition and galvanizes them, setting them to dance for us in wonderful, new interpretations. — Cat Rambo

I can't keep doing this to myself, getting my hopes up so high, only to have them come crashing down. I can't keep waiting for him to come to his senses, having my whole emotional state rest on what he decides. What if he never wakes up to how perfect we'd be together? What if I spend another year pining for him - or longer even? In a terrible flash, I see my future stretching out before me: waiting for his calls, rearranging my life around college visits, and decoding texts and instant messages like they could be something real, something true.
This isn't love; this is pure torment. — Abby McDonald

Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door. — Sandra Cisneros

I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don't mess with me. — Arundhati Roy

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. — Wilfred Owen

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny. — Jeff Probst

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself. — Edward B. Hanna

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization. — Bertrand Russell

After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts. — Fernando Pessoa

Justice ought sometimes to protect those least able to protect themselves. — Stephen R. Lawhead