Vigda Corner Quotes & Sayings

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us. — Teresa Of Avila

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know. — Steve Earle

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. — Olive Schreiner

The riots were a turning point in Ben-Gurion's — Anita Shapira

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes. — George Eliot

Something at the back of his mind whispered that this assignment would be like nothing he had encountered before. — Nicole Sager

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. — Basil O'Connor

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me. — Jamaica Kincaid

As soon as Joe was done feeding Ira Kenby's fucking dog, he was going to call social services again, and Casey would be taken to a home that would be more appropriate for a runaway. So really, Joe would say, they owed much of their lives together to a senile old man and a dog tortured by hunger to the point it didn't know better. (Casey would always reply that they would have met again, because there was just no way they could have lived without each other, but Joe's faith didn't run that deep. Casey would say that was because Joe didn't have a Josiah Daniels in his life, and Joe would shake his head and walk off, but that was later in their story.) — Amy Lane

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood. — Sherman Hemsley

Are you waiting for someone to come and get you? I whisper. I sound small and thirsty. He doesn't answer. Instead, he bends his head and kisses me, just once, then let's me go.
When Connor would kiss Angelie in the halls last spring, he did it like he was trying to suck the chocolate off the outside of a Klondike bar.
It could last for hours. This is more like seeing a star fall - thrilling and soundless and then over. — Brenna Yovanoff