Viejito Piola Quotes & Sayings

By the time she had finished, her hand was in Elizabeth's firm clasp again. Her touch was strangely comforting - a woman's touch signifying a woman's sympathy. Elizabeth would understand what it would be like to be a captive, to have one's freedom taken away, and then, as a final indignity, to have one's very body invaded and used for the pleasure of one's captor. Another woman would understand the monumental inner battle that had
had to be waged every single day and night to cling to that something at the core of herself that was herself, that gave her identity and dignity. That something that even a rapist - even, perhaps, a murderer - could not take away from her. — Mary Balogh

Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill. — Dale Carnegie

Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications. — Norma McCorvey

I played piano, I learned a lot about music. — Maximilian Schell

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. — Anne Sullivan

Grip had been hungry ever since the first youthful spots on his sheets. Wanting to try what others only fantasized about, finding his way to the fearless ones who laughed back, the ones who also wanted it. Games with new positions had started before the end of adolescence. Later: bruises, leather straps, and candles - anything that excited - on airplanes, in hotel elevators with the emergency stop button pushed. — Robert Karjel

Stood on the sidewalk and looked down the street — Sarah Addison Allen

And made what an outside observer would have thought was a heroic effort to cross the room. — Douglas Adams