Vianna Stibal Quotes & Sayings

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses. — R. K. Milholland

When writing fantasy
novels, one must be careful what one
invents. For every benefit, there is
usually a drawback. — J.K. Rowling

The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about. — Fiona Thrust

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

He is not a man who hurts the woman he loves. — J. Kenner

I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can. — Brenda Ueland

At some point, you have to make the decision between losing the person you love and your own sanity. — Lucinda Riley

The Hellish and dismal cloud of ... Coal ... perpetually imminent over (London) ... that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist ... corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs, ... Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides. — John Evelyn

So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend. — Cory Doctorow

An old Apache storyteller reminds us — Joseph Campbell

The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that single sentence could explain: it means two people that were brave enough to show their scars, vulnerability, rough edges, happiest thoughts, along with their worst fears, and find a mutual respect, appreciation, and fondness for one another; they achieved a gift that not many people get to experience in their lifetime in its truest form. — Carlos Salinas