Van Der Heide Family New York Quotes & Sayings

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it. — P.D. James

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient. — Joe Biden

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. — Zora Neale Hurston

My mother said the bizarre name Raccoona had surely been inspired, at least on a subliminal level, by the masks raccoons don't wear but simply have - the ones given them by nature ... [S]he pointed out that Le Guin had suspected all along that Raccoona and Tiptree were two authors that came from the same source, but in a letter to Alice she wrote that she preferred Tiptree to Raccoona: 'Raccoona, I think, has less control, thus less wit and power.'
Le Guin, Mother said, had understood something deep. 'When you take on a male persona, something happens.'
When I asked her what that was, she sat back in her chair, waved her arm, and smiled. 'You get to be the father. — Siri Hustvedt

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables. — Kina Grannis

branches clawing at my flesh. Snow flooded my — Jessica Sorensen

Betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is betrayal nonetheless. It is the highest betrayal. — Neale Donald Walsch

Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone. — Sue Grafton

Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage. — Paulette Jiles

The real Santa Claus is at the mall. — Lemony Snicket