Tristessa Quotes & Sayings

She could not hope to overcome him, but if she could find a blade quickly enough, if she could open her wrists. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Odysseus is always slipping out, the man who has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything, — Adam Nicolson

Thinking about somebody every day of his life ... oh yes, he said to himself. Oh yes, you do. You think about somebody. He fills your world. He is all about you, a presence, and you think about him; you can't help it, because he's always there, in your thoughts. But you know, of course, that all the while you're thinking about him, he's not thinking about you. That's the hardest thing about it. That's what makes it so very, very hard to bear. So hard that sometimes you just sit there and let the misery wash over you; the misery, the emptiness. — Alexander McCall Smith

No! Kell shouted, reaching toward his brother, uselessly, desperately, but as his hand brushed the nearest person, the darkness leaped like fire from his fingers to the man's chest. He shuddered, and then collapsed, crumbling to ash as his body struck the street stones. Before he hit the ground, the people on either side of him began to fall as well, death rippling in a wave through the crowd, silently consuming everyone. Beyond them, the buildings began to crumble too, and the bridges, and the palace, until Kell was standing alone in an empty world. And then in the silence, he heard a sound: not a sob, or a scream, but a laugh. And it took him a moment to recognize the voice.
It was his. — Victoria Schwab

Make your introductions and you're welcome to wander off with any of the women watching you like you're the last piece of chocolate on the first day of their period. — Avery Flynn

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. — Sharon Salzberg

Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't. — Tananarive Due

If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses. — Ed Seykota

The notion that the campus has its hands tied if a woman is not willing to go to the police, if the woman is only willing to go so far as, "I just don't want to see him in my dorm anymore," is ridiculous. If that's as far as she's willing to go, then we need to accommodate that. And a university needs to be able to accommodate it. — Claire McCaskill

If you feel like you have to have them for some reason, tell me and we'll take them out together. Promise?"
"If you promise not to tell the whole school about this."
"I won't tell them anything. Deal?"
"Deal."
"I think we should seal it."
I gave a jittery laugh. "With a handshake?"
"I was thinking more like a kiss. — Jennifer Archer