Zmira Bernstein Quotes & Sayings

I was cyber-bullied before all those Myspace-related suicides, so my school principal wasn't really impressed when my mom complained about what was happening to me on my Xanga blog and on AIM chat.
"Get your life sorted out, you fucking scitzo [sic] dyke tranny bitch," one comment might say.
Another comment would say something like, "I know she's reading this, she's so pathetic."
And, perhaps most frightening of all: "I'm going to fuck you up until your mother bleeds. — Nenia Campbell

What are you doing?"
"What?"
Emrys didn't raise his voice as he said, "To that girl. What are you doing that makes her come in here with such emptiness in her eyes?"
"That's none of your concern."
Emrys pressed his lips into a tight line. "What do you see when you look at her, Prince?"
He didn't know. These days, he didn't know a damn thing. "That's none of your concern, either."
Emrys ran a hand over his weathered face. "I see her slipping away, bit by bit, because you shove her down when she so desperately needs someone to help her back up. — Sarah J. Maas

I would like to care more about you than about my feelings for you. — Waylon H. Lewis

He only knew that he had lived up to his best impulse, and that is all any one can do. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Because that saying about sticks and stones is a pack of lies. Unkind words hurt more than anything else. You end up carrying them around in your head, wondering if they're true. Bruises fade, but self-doubt follows you forever. — Kate Lattey

And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!"
"No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion! — Georgette Heyer

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends. — Arthur Kornberg

If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he'll make you BUSY. — Corrie Ten Boom

The single most important way to encourage women and girls to stand up for their rights is education, and we can do far more to promote universal education in poor countries. — Nicholas D. Kristof

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. — Winston S. Churchill

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches. — Gary Johnson

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations. — David Hume

God does not promise us that life will be free of sorrow and difficult trials, but He does promise us He will always be there to guide us through...wrapped in His arms of love. — Kimberly McCormick

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived. — Peter Kreeft