Crysta Zurheide > Crysta's Quotes

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

“Frankly, Olan couldn't hit a bull in the ass with a ping pong paddle.”
― Kyle Keyes, Worm Holes

“Mildred adjusted the papers and scribbled some more. When she was finished, she took off her glasses, leaving them to swing from the chain around her neck. She gave the women around the table a pointed look. “Now think hard, ladies, can you come up with anything else?”
― Kirsten Fullmer

“Terra read the words aloud: “If I’m one day gone, you’ll know it’s here that I go. Into the black darkness that has become my foe. No one will look and no one will ever find. My memory will only exist in the broken mind.” She paused after reading the entry and then traced her fingers along the edges of the page. “There are more words written under the blackness. You can just barely see that they were words but I can’t make them out well enough to read.”
― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl

“Everything is made of atoms.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult”
― art spiegelman, The Complete Maus

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
― Lewis Carroll

“men were both brutes and blockheads.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“On her [Thérèse's] part she seemed to revel in daring and shamelessness. Not a single moment of hesitation or fear possessed her. She threw herself into adultery with a kind of furious honesty, flouting danger, and as it were, taking pride in doing so.”
― Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air--moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh--felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing. Honeysuckle, swamp flowers, magnolia, and the mystery smell of the river scented the atmosphere, amplifying the intrusion of organic sleaze. It was aphrodisiac and repressive, soft and violent at the same time. In New Orleans, in the French Quarter, miles from the barking lungs of alligators, the air maintained this quality of breath, although here it acquired a tinge of metallic halitosis, due to fumes expelled by tourist buses, trucks delivering Dixie beer, and, on Decatur Street, a mass-transit motor coach named Desire.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“way clean over in Nebraska. He’d even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms, Bobby and Billy. So no matter how many times her father asked who the man”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“He loved Arthur and he loved Guenever and he hated himself. The best knight of the world: everybody envied the self-esteem which must surely be his. But Lancelot never believed he was good or nice. Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo's, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace.”
― T.H. White, The Once & Future King

“Life is based on comparisons”
― Henri Charrière

“The youth perceived that the time had come. He was about to be measured. For a moment he felt in the face of his great trial like a babe, and the flesh over his heart seemed very thin.”
― Stephen Crane

“They really thought what other people sing in songs.”
― Boris Pasternak

“Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“The worst mark you can recieve is a promise, especially when it is confirmed with an oath; after which every man retires, and gives over all hopes. (referring to Chief Minister of State)”
― Swift Jonathan, L2: Gulliver's Travels Bk & MP3 Pk

“لو كنت رجلاً منطقيا - مع أنني أرتاب بعض الشيء في كونكـ رجلا – لأنكـ تمتلكـ فيما يبدو صوتا واحدا، ولكن لو كانت لديكـ ذرة من المنطق، لاستمعت إلى صوت العقل، أنت تطلب مني أن أصدق أن هناكـ نوعا أخر من الحركة غير تلكـ التي أراها كل يوم ، و أنا بدوري أطلب منكـ أن تصف بالكلمات أو تبين عن طريق الحركة ذلكـ الخط الآخر الذي تتحدث عنهـ، ولكنكـ بدلاً من أن تتحرك تمارس نوعا من الحيل السحريّة للاختفاء ومعاودة الظهور مرة أخرى، وبدلاً من أن تقدم لي صورة واضحة لعالمكـ الجديد، تخبرني فقط بأطوال نحو أربعين من حاشيتي، وهي حقائق يعرفها أي طفل في عاصمتنا، هل هناكـ ما هو أكثر جنوناً أو وقاحة من ذلكـ؟ اعترف بحماقتكـ أو ارحل عن أرضي..”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You should never mistake affection for … passion,”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho