Yakub Quotes & Sayings

Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous. — Frederick Lenz

Attaining immortality is easier than controlling its terms and conditions. — David Mitchell

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd. — R. Lee Ermey

When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living ... I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do. — Henry David Thoreau

Be glad they didn't take you," I told him. "You were better off."
"I doubt that."
"I don't. You don't know what it's like, growing up around a bunch of people who treat you like an inferior, who see you only as a commodity to be used, who couldn't give a shit about you unless you're benefitting them in some way. . . ." I stopped, biting my lip. "You'd have tried to fit in, done your best to learn about them, to be one of them. But it would never have worked. You'd have always felt like what you were - an outsider. Because you're not like them. You're not . . . like anybody."
I looked up to see his face swimming in front of me.
"Be glad they didn't take you!"
"Someone in your life was stupid, too," he told me. And then he kissed me. — Karen Chance

How come you still go on about your religion even after you gave it up?' ... 'It would be truer to say it gave me up, or rather it directed me to another path. But I still need it to tell me who I am. What about you Sam? Perhaps you are one of the lucky ones who are so sure who they are that external help isn't necessary. — Reginald Hill

The minute that you start thinking about someone in the whole circumstance of his life to the extent that you can, he becomes mysterious, immediately. — Marilynne Robinson

What sexual preference do you hope she has?" "Happiness." Isnt that cool? — Francesca Lia Block

Bull had been around charisma before. The sense that some people had of moving through their lives in a cloud of likability or power. — James S.A. Corey

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough. — Eric Braeden

As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal. — Charles Dickens

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back."
The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen.
"I swallowed it," Fraser said.
Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece.
"I see," he said.
"I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again. — Diana Gabaldon