Troupers Looking Quotes & Sayings

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting. — Elizabeth Wein

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear. — Anne Enright

Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter. — Densey Clyne

Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of self-realization, you'll know when you have acquired the nebulous gifts that rowing has to offer, whether it's courage or a strengthened soul or a powerful body. Once you have it, drop back ten yards and punt. Someone new will pick up the ball and run with it. — Brad Alan Lewis

That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer feel it. — Mitch Albom

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

I don't know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid. — Pearl S. Buck

So after they'd been swindled and bamboozled by the Terrans enough times they retreated to their home planets and bolted all the doors and drew all the curtains. Terrans are tricky customers to deal with even for other humans, so a saintly robot would have had no chance. — J.H.G. Foss