ZizzFeed Quotes

Inspiration

Mine is the least fat diet in the world.

Pierre Dukan

"I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man."

Esmeralda Santiago

"If there is such a thing as depression and despair, I experienced it during the months leading-up to and following the divorce. Insomnia, constant and uncontrollable thoughts and a deep sense of loss were among the conditions of my life. Was I depressed? Yes, I was very much so and, what’s worse, was determined to do nothing immediately for it."

H. Kirk Rainer

"It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black."

Unknown

Inspiration

He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.

Frank Herbert

"Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot."

James Salter

"Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks."

Gina Greenlee

"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man."

Polybius

"Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield."

Ally Carter

"One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief."

Colum McCann

"It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime."

National Geographic Society

"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks."

Sherman Alexie