Yoktuan Quotes & Sayings

Neither of us could fully participate in our days, though later Suzanne would participate in a way she could never take back. I mean that we didn't quite believe it was enough, what we were offered, and Tamar seemed to accept the world happily, as an end point. Her planning wasn't actually about making anything different - she was just rearranging the same known quantities, puzzling out a new order like life was an extended seating chart. — Emma Cline

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Fury ... sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal ... drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths — Salman Rushdie

The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as "the stripper soundtrack":
Boom chicka-boom, boom-boom chicka-boom.
When their mother stopped walking the soundtrack stopped. If she took a single step it was accompanied by Albie saying only "boom" in a voice that was weirdly sexual for a six-year-old. — Ann Patchett

Keller had a professor in college who said that civilization was a matter of plumbing. That basically, the infrastructure for moving clean water in and filthy water out is what allowed people to congregate in large populations in permanent dwellings and create cities and cultures. Otherwise, people had to be nomads to literally escape their own shit. — Don Winslow

So many choices and temptations tonight. - Emma — Martha Sweeney

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. — Alfred The Great

I can't get you out of me. Your smile's in my head and your voice in my ear. — Nyrae Dawn

A true believer is a danger to humanity. — Al Jaffee

Bling is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence ... the haves' bleeding the have-nots'. — T.F. Hodge

Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. — Michael Douglas

She seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so — John Edward Williams

The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside. — Fred Pierce Corson

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. — Sophie Swetchine