What Is The Falling Action Of The Raven Quotes & Sayings

If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to the grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers of the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things our most violent form of nostalgia. — Adam Phillips

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life. — Elizabeth Bowen

She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. — Kate Morton

Nothing in the world, I thought to myself, is as old as what was futuristic in the past. — Ben Lerner

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict. — Timothy Olyphant

American influence is not what it used to be. — Fareed Zakaria

Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mess with its neural configuration, too: This is its third body, and it's getting more realistically uncooperative with every hardware upgrade. Sooner or later it's going to demand a litter tray and start throwing up on the carpet. — Charles Stross