Vanishment This World Quotes & Sayings

I liked to refer to myself as bougavian. Slightly bougie, but I was not one to easily forget my bird roots. — Nicole Falls

stuck in their belly like Jonah. — John Green

By the way, don't thank me for saving you, thank the lifeguards. If it was up to me, I would've just carried you off to the building by the boardwalk that said SURGERY. I'm sorry, but there's a big difference between a family doctor treating you for the sniffles, and a guy who actually owns and knows how to use an operating table. — Elle Lothlorien

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one's death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning. — Dean Koontz

You don't want to sit by me?" Rafe called to her with a grin.
"No, I don't," Layla said. "I wouldn't sit by you if every other seat in the room was on fire."
"Ouch." Rafe winced, then rebounded with a sleazy smile. "That would hurt me if I believed it. You know you're curious to go for a ride."
"About as curious as I am to get syphilis," Layla snapped. — Sarah Cross

Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations. — Alice Walker

I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly. — A.R. Rahman

The effect of corruption I find most underacknowledged is a contraction not of economic possibility but of our moral universe. — Katherine Boo

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. — Will Durant

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them. — Jessica Brown Findlay

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking. — Liza Minnelli

Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you — Lynne Ramsay

I was a heartless, ungrateful wench of a girl who promised everyone who came into contact with me a one-way ticket to pain and hurt. I didn't know how to love and I didn't deserve to be loved back. — Sarra Manning