Treading On Eggshells Quotes & Sayings

He stands before a door that will not open
wood sometimes, iron, but always the same door, set into a well, maybe in the anonymous middle of some city block, unattended, no one in control of who enters and who can't, a blank door hardly different from the wall it is set into, silent, insert, no handle or knob, no lock or keyhole, fitting so tightly into its wall that not even a knifeblade can be slipped between them ... He could wait across the street, keep vigil all night and day and night again, praying though not in the usual way, exactly, for the unmarked hour when at last the quality of shadow at the edge of the door might slowly begin to change, the geometry deepen and shift, the unasked-for as that, the route to some so-far-undreamable interior lie open, a way in whose way back out lies too far ahead in the dream to worry about — Thomas Pynchon

I can't wait for this to come out in October! — Dan Brown

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it. — Patti Smith

Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that. — John Steinbeck

...a time when the plans and ideals that you've been dreaming of for years come up against reality. you graduate from college and have to find your way in the real world. you learn that there is no perfect job. there is no perfect relationship. — Christine Hassler

God decided to leave you in this fallen world to live, love, and work, because he intended to use the difficulties you face to do something in you that couldn't be done any other way. — Paul David Tripp

Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning. — Maria Duenas

What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena? — Vicky Alvear Shecter

While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings. — Margaret Atwood

Cheer up, children, I am all right. — Joseph Haydn

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator. — Steve Jobs

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke. — Haile Gebrselassie