"I think now we are simply strangers with some memories."
Tan Redding
"Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it."
Alice Hoffman
"What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person."
George Orwell
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it."
Dave Eggers
"Do You think it matters if they're tiny or deep? He asked. Well, if they're not tiny breaths and they're not deep breaths, then they're just ... Breaths. Then you're just breathing for the sake of ... Breathing. ... Seize them. Feel them. Love them ..."
K.A. Tucker
"The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore."
Peter Benchley
"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage."
Aurobindo Sri
"There are televisions and radios and the sounds of life, but too there is the sound of death, crying and oxygen tanks, and the squeaky wheels on wheelchairs. Like life and death are in a very close proximity to one another."
Jon Chopan
"I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope."
Friedrich A. Hayek
"Yer a wizard, Harry!"
J.K. Rowling
"Stay with the living conditions within our own life."
Jan Jansen Easy Branches
"The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief."
Emily Croy Barker
"...Don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive..."
John Geddes
"I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is."
B. F. Skinner
"Hope is the boat we ride to reach the shore of our desires."
Debasish Mridha
"I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it."
Dallas Willard
"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
Mother Teresa
"Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore."