Yamanaka Shikanosuke Quotes & Sayings

Extenuating Circumstances. That is me. That is Violet Markey. Poor forever-changed Violet and her Extenuating Circumstances. — Jennifer Niven

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley

You're fucking driving me insane," he growls into my neck. No. He was insane before me. However, I'll wait a bit to make that case. — Jewel E. Ann

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you. — Judge Mills Lane

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. — Francis Bacon

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble. — Paula Fox

Around me the beautiful windows, connecting me to other lives and other times, to things done and also deliberately left undone, stood dark. Rose, I was sure, had acted out of love, yet for Iris her mother's absence had remained an unresolved sadness at the center of her life. I thought of what Rose had written about anger, about its power to corrupt, to make a space for evil. Maybe she was right. Maybe evil, that old-fashioned word, could be called other things, disharmony or dysfunction. Maybe Rose was right and evil wasn't attached top an individual as much as if was a force in the world, a seeing force, one that worked like a self-replicating virus, seeking to entangle, to ensnare, to undo beauty. [p.353] — Kim Edwards