Yen Press Quotes & Sayings

Live the life you choose and enjoy the happiness and regret that comes with that life.

~Yong-Kum — Lee Eun

No redheads, though, are plain. — Marion Roach

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful. — Louise Bourgeois

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding
my stars!
I should never be able to support it! — Fanny Burney

Do you really exist?" I blurt out.
"Not at all," he says with a smile, "I've known that since I was four. — David Levithan

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. — Zora Neale Hurston

You can put your bra back on if you want. A lot of people play in clothes." I turned and gestured around the room, where absolutely no one was playing in clothes. "Maybe not tonight, but ... — Annabel Joseph

That's it!" Victoria dramatically threw her hands up, disrupting people around them. "It's official. You inherited it."
"What?"
"The idiot gene. — J.M. Darhower

When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity. — William Carlos Williams

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something. — Chelsea Handler

But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness. — Alice Meynell

Who would awaken the past?
It shines like a sunrise
And cuts like a fine blade. — Juliet Marillier

For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland ... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane. — Isaac Stern

The best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants. — Alben W. Barkley