Villastrigo Quotes & Sayings

So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing; two-thousand-word acts of love on air-mail paper. Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. In return, Dexter sent her postcards with insufficient postage: 'Amsterdam is MAD', 'Barcelona INSANE', 'Dublin ROCKS. Sick as DOG this morning.' As a travel writer, he was no Bruce Chatwin, but still she would slip the postcards in the pocket of a heavy coat on long soulful walks on Ilkley Moor, searching for some hidden meaning in 'VENICE COMPLETELY FLOODED!!!! — David Nicholls

It's like we've entered a separate reality. Like now it's just the two of us, nothing else matters, no one exists. — Blake Nelson

Climate change is like that; it's hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this odd form of on-again-off-again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right.5 — Naomi Klein

There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position. — Pal Benko

There was nothing like a trip to the gynecologist to make one feel just a little violated.
Charley — Darynda Jones

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it. — Malala Yousafzai

The Greek word for box is kouti which also means stupid. — Lucas Samaras

I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo's tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they're you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn't know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo. — Elif Batuman

And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Yes, — Ray Bradbury

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life.
- Jane Gardiner — Madeleine L'Engle

Yr/ humanity counterfeit
yr/ liberty cankered with simulation
— Ezra Pound

When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.' — Gallant

If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer. — Abram Hoffer