Weeping Monk Quotes & Sayings

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story. — Amy Engel

I placidly wait for what I don't know-
My future and the future of everything.
In the end there will only be silence except
Where the waves of the sea bathe nothing. — Fernando Pessoa

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. — Georg Baselitz

At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something — Sun Ra

Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the fright spring-coiled inside me would break loose. Then I remembered the widow dress I was wearing. I made a sound with my lips like I was trying to give him an answer, but choking on the words, seized by my grief, and I didn't have to pretend that much. I felt sorrow for my life, for what I'd lived and seen and known, for what was lost to me, and the weeping turned real. — Sue Monk Kidd

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. — Harvey Fierstein

Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest. — Aeschylus

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way. — Stephenie Meyer

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git. — Paddy Ashdown

You can't edit yesterday's paper. — Pete Hamill

The price of happiness is the risk of losing it. — Richard Paul Evans

The moment you truly forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind. — Eckhart Tolle

Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome. — Suzanne Collins

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars. — Anthony Marra

A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good? — Victor Hugo