Yearly Death Anniversary Quotes & Sayings

There was a not-quite-secret stairway in the back of the library building that led up to a balcony bordered by delicately arched windows. These looked out over a small courtyard lined with sour-orange trees. Across from this were the royal baths- which connected directly to the audience chamber, banquet hall, and eventually the throne room itself. That had sounded strange until Jasmine explained to Aladdin that sultans often entertained foreign guests and consulted with top advisers while enjoying a pleasant mint-scented sweat in the steam rooms. — Liz Braswell

The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken. — Gume Laurel III

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him. — Tom Felton

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read. — Frances Hardinge

Amazing how quickly someone else's problems become yours. Trouble creates a vacuum into which the rest of us get sucked. — Sue Grafton

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place. — Walter Darby Bannard

There are smart ways to success but no short cuts. Becoming successful is a process, and it's important that one moves through all the required steps. One cannot buy or bribe one's way to success; it needs to be earned. — Vishwas Chavan

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,
You never answered my question and it was very important.
ARE YOU BALD? — Jean Webster

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine. — Kevin DeYoung

I looked at Tristan, stunned.
"You did this," I paused. "For me?" I watched Tristan's
expression carefully. He leaned forward. His dark brown hair fell near his eyes and under the simple lighting from the candles, they glowed. Everything looked beautiful and magical, and he'd done
all this for me and Eric?
"For you," he whispered. — Angela McPherson

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not. — Lawrence Block

9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and perhaps will be forever? Sometimes it seems like it. It was such a monstrous act of imagination over anything else - the actual fatalities, while awful, were not what distinguished the event from others. — Porochista Khakpour