Vitesse Oblige Quotes & Sayings

Emma had been given her own room and so had Julian, but he was hardly ever in it. Drusilla and Octavian were still waking up every night screaming, and Julian had taken to sleeping on the floor of their room, pillow and blanket piled up next to Tavvy's crib. There was no high chair to be had, so Julian sat on the floor opposite the toddler on a food-covered blanket, a plate in one hand and a despairing look on his face. Emma — Cassandra Clare

Some things you remember, and some you forget. Of the things you remember, you have to wonder what's real and what's translated into a memory from a story you heard. — Bill Konigsberg

Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience. When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough. — Byron Katie

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it. — Carolyn Heilbrun

the mob is the most ruthless of tyrants; — Friedrich Nietzsche

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine. — Vladimir Nabokov

What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work? — Brad Gooch

About two months after this photo was taken I was born and my mum died - clean swap. Caring about someone I never knew doesn't make sense, but that's how it is. This photo means a lot. There must be some invisible mother-daughter wiring that runs from her image in a straight line to my heart. — Bill Condon

The Global Financial Crisis (2008-?); it is not a matter of noblesse oblige as of vitesse oblige. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann