Zeynep Alkan Quotes & Sayings

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. — Drew Gilpin Faust

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death. — Dean Koontz

Prayer is a conversation with the Father you trust. — Sunday Adelaja

In the deep shadow of the porch
A slender bind-weed springs,
And climbs, like airy acrobat,
The trellises, and swings
And dances in the golden sun
In fairy loops and rings. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

You went up a girl and came down a woman. — Patrick Ness

Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite. — Umair Haque

He wanted to cut the man's throat. Never in his life had he been so overpowered by such a desire to kill someone. It was a strange feeling, sweet and driven. In one leap he could be on him. His legs wanted to do it; they trembled with anticipation. — Robert Karjel

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed. — David Gerrold

You have to be mine after that," he breathed. He was still inside me and the intensity was too much to think, but I forced my way through the haze. "I can't." "Fuck that," he argued. "You can. You are. — Kandi Steiner

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell — Strobe Talbott

I dreamed my shoulders held up the sky for a thousand hawks that squawked and cawed and beat their feathered wings against the hotness of the day. I supported their flight, watching and marveling, until sweat dripped from my body, and groans crossed my lips over fatiguing muscles.
Choosing to let the sky fall, I awoke.
My eyes opened to a cast of hawks gripping me in their talons. They supported my weight, hauling me high above the clouds through a blue expanse of heaven. And though they struggled - squawking and flapping wearily - never once did a single bird release its hold. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead. — George Monbiot

ROS (mournfully): Not even England. I don't believe in it anyway.
GUIL: What?
ROS: England.
GUIL: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean. — Tom Stoppard