Zograffi Quotes & Sayings

Why, June, you sound surprised. He'd put on an offended-housewife voice, but it was in a hoarse whisper, so it sounded like an offended housewife who smoked five packs of cigarettes a day. I laughed. — Carol Rifka Brunt

What Zograffi would have to realize was that Elie had come to the end, and there was no farther-on for him. Nothing. Emptiness.
They could do anything to him they liked. They could prescribe any punishment. But they mustn't force him to leave. That was beyond him. he would rather sit down on the curbstone and let himself die there in the sun.
He was tired. For the others, for a man like Zograffi, did that word have the terrible significance it had for him? — Georges Simenon

The difference between two dissimilar ways of life gets portrayed as a fight between good and evil. Just — Amish Tripathi

why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Too often in life we pass by important things. Let's pause, change perspective and see things more clearly. — Sergio Pinto

True sincerity works more than a magnet. It attracts, bond and take people farther far better than mere action and words! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give. — Stephen Christian

The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments. — Stephen Kinzer

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down. — Hanya Yanagihara

Walkers easily travel three miles by foot. Drivers get in their cars to get from one side of the parking lot to the other. Neither quite understand why the other is so crazy, when it's so easy to do things their way. — Jacob Lund Fisker

History has shown that money is a salve unto itself for any malady of the troubled mind. — James Daniel Ross

Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass.
Henry arched an eyebrow. "A pro, I see."
"What else is there to do in Ohio? — Libba Bray

Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate - and who can live off their death. — Michel De Montaigne