Quotes by Authors - Page 268

In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Century Theatre. Then, as now, my imagination was magnetized toward transient artists - toward the transience as much as the artists. I must have seen "Acrobats in a Park" at the time I wrote the story as exotic, free of any experience as I knew it. At the center of the little story is the Zorro's act: the feat of erecting a structure of their bodies that holds together, interlocked, and stands like a wall. Writing about the family act, I was writing about the family itself, its strength as a unit, testing its frailty under stress. I treated it in an artificial and oddly formal way; the stronghold of the family is put on view as a structure built each night; on the night before the story opens, the Wall has come down when the most vulnerable member slips, and the act is done for. But from various points within it and from outside it, I've been writing about the structure of the family in stories and novels ever since. In spite of my uncompromising approach to it, my fundamental story form might have been trying to announce itself to me.
Eudora Welty
We are all lost, so lost, vulnerable and insecure. We are separated from love at birth, we are separated from God, from each other. All we want, all we yearn for is to connect.
Kamand Kojouri
For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.
Cristina García
And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.
Suzy Kassem
Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is. We live orphaned on a tiny rock in the immense vastness of space, with no hint of even the simplest form of life anywhere around us for billions upon billions of miles, alone beyond all imagining. We live locked in our own heads and can never entirely know the experience of another person. Even if we're surrounded by family and friends, we journey into death completely alone.
Michael Finkel
The other person always has a point, Listen to each other, and you'll hear it.
Sophie Kinsella
People move on. Friendship end.
Sophie Kinsella
I passionately believe home cooking has vast benefit to individuals, families, community, environment and animal welfare, but in today’s busy society it is often the first thing we outsource. While some may argue this makes economic sense, the cost and benefit of doing so cannot be measured in dollars alone.
Alyce Alexandra
It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.
Peter Biskind
She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even legible. "What's wrong with it?" I asked her. "It's not good enough yet. You have to try harder," she said, her voice gentle. "You have to try hard at everything you do. That's all I ask." I rolled my eyes and revised it, and over time her approach wore off on me and I became like her too - wanting to do my best, expecting my best.
Daisy Whitney
In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.
Christopher Hitchens
I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.
David Lovelace
Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much as touch your spouse, your parents, your children. The system does everything within its power to sever any physical or emotional links you have to anyone in the outside world. They want your children to grow up without ever knowing you.They want your spouse to forget your face and start a new life. They want you to sit alone, grieving, in a concrete box, unable even to say your last farewell at a parent's funeral.
Damien Echols
If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?
Shannon L. Alder
How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?
Jandy Nelson
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
Jane Austen
THE UNFORGIVENTell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:The kind who take and don't give.The kind to whom you give and give,And they keep asking.The kind to whom you give and give and they say you gave nothing.The kind whom have never offered anything,But act like they're the ones providingEVERYTHING.The kind you give and give,But take more than you can give.And when they have already taken everything,They get mad at you when you say you haveNothing more to give.The unforgiving,The misgiving,Wastefully living -And selfishly driven.The rat that never gives back,Yet is so quick to attack -Because they think the wordTAKINGSeriously meansGIVING.
Suzy Kassem
Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.
Mitch Albom
I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137)
Stephen Clarke
I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.
Holly Black
Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-""You invented the Inte
Rick Riordan
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck
Lord, I pray that you will let my talent bring JOY and BEAUTY to a world that sometimes is dark and discouraging.
Jennifer Allwood
The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Anticipate the miraculous splendour of everyday wonder.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Be willing to listen to the voice of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Walk in the light before the dawn of darkness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit
Lailah Gifty Akita
God is the Creator of all dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
May God guide and lead us to a glorious future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
By God’s grace and mighty power, we can do great deeds.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Grace abounds for a greater work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
May we be zealous for more of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The Supreme Being longs to hear His Children talk to Him every day at any time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Without challenge we fail to develop the higher self.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A grateful heart is good medicine.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Lord save mankind from every darkness and bondage.
Lailah Gifty Akita
May God brighten your path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Asking is the beginning of receiving.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You are capable of much more than you envisage.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The graveyard is the everlasting home of every man.
Lailah Gifty Akita
God is exist within us.
Lailah Gifty Akita
God of great mercy!God of great compassion!
Lailah Gifty Akita
The miraculous wonder of this blessed day is beyond my comprehension.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Wherever you are, you have to be joyfully alive.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The unique fingerprint of every individual defines our unique purpose and mission on earth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
It is our responsibility to pray for a peaceful world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
My pastor mentioned Kierkegaard in a sermon only once, and it would be a long time before I discovered that there was a storied Christian who suffered from, and so in some way sanctioned, depression, rage, sarcasm, and despair - the diseases that took hold in adolescence, for which church offered no cure.
Carlene Bauer
Today is a sacred moment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The path of holiness is a path of light.
Lailah Gifty Akita
It is obvious that the prevalent Christian world-view is not a Kingdom world-view
Sunday Adelaja
We thrive in hardships by God’s grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When you arrive at the destination, never forget where the journey began.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is being confident of what we do not seen.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is being confident of what we do not see.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The people living in land of deep darkness have seen a great light.
Lailah Gifty Akita