Unforbidden Quotes & Sayings

It's like they suddenly don't understand what it is they have created. I touch the haemanthus blossom in my pocket and feel the wedding band around my neck. They didn't create me. She did. It — Pierce Brown

The sun was just coming up over the mountains--blood red and cold. I felt as if I was standing in the mightiest cathedral that had ever been built. There was no end to it, and no beginning. All I could do was look at it and worship. — Robert Specht

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. — William Butler Yeats

Did you really just say 'by the mighty power of Thor'?" "I'm trying to cuss less. — Penny Reid

Come on, who saw what happened?"
"I did," I volenteered.
"Well?"
"Buttwipe wanted to know what jerkface was looking at." I turned turned eyes on the bloody and dirt-smeared brawlers. "You were barely 3-inches apart. Couldn't you see that you were both looking at each other?"
The teacher's face reddened. "Who do you think you are? Jerry Seinfeld?"
"You must be confused with another student," I told him. "My name is Capricorn Anderson. — Gordon Korman

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading. — Natasha Trethewey

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances. — Francis Atterbury

He kissed her, over and over, printing blood-flavored kisses on her cheek, her throat, her jaw, her mouth. — Lilith Saintcrow

I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while. — Shane Warne

Want vs. What's Coming to You
As the Rolling Stones say,
You can't always get what you want ~
but God will always give you what's coming to you. — Beryl Dov

It is human nature to strive. — Temple Grandin

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created. — Rumi

Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win Pennsylvania, he would win North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight we've come from behind, we've broken the tie, and, thanks to you, it's full speed on to the White House. — Hillary Clinton

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves. — Thierry Henry

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger. — Sigmar Polke

It was as if whatever had happened had reached some kind of limit. It was like finding the gateway to the past unguarded, unforbidden because it didn't have to be. Built into the act of return finally was this glittering mosaic of doubt. Something like what Sauncho's colleagues in marine insurance liked to call inherent vice. — Thomas Pynchon