Araceli Kaye > Araceli's Quotes

“If you choose to leave The Octunnumi, sever ties, that part of your life is a distant memory; dream-like.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Everything that counts is for love, Quoyle. It's the engine of life.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“It was the time of night when the odd feeling of not being quite in focus comes and goes, and all things are mysterious.”
― Tracy Kidder

“She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were hundreds of thousands of them throughout the country. If this state of affairs had lasted for two or three years, we could say that it was unjust; but it lasted for more than two hundred years. Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.
'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.'
(Women in Love)”
― D. H. Lawrence

“The way you see your life shapes your life.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view. ”
― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

“У морфиниста есть одно счастье, которое у него никто не может отнять,— способность проводить жизнь в полном одиночестве. А одиночество — это важные, значительные мысли, это созерцание, спокойствие, мудрость…”
― Михаил Булгаков, Морфий