Kathe Sourlis > Kathe's Quotes

“Heidi's role as grand master was to monitor all the women and to manage their locations and communication. Even though she’d done this many times on multiple missions, her heartbeat still pounded in her ears.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

“She’d worn anxiety like a thick robe for so long that it was hard for her to take it off.”
― Pernell Plath Meier, In Our Bones

“His eyes swelling with tears, the alien salt stinging. Not tears of sadness, this he decides. He won't let them be anything more than a body's way of letting go.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“Why should we be receptive to the ups and downs of multiple adoption stories? When we allow the elite 1% to speak for us, they will share from their perspective, and naturally, this point of view is tainted with doing whatever is possible to protect their reputation. In other words, I've learned that what pro-adoption lobbyists claim to be "in the best interest of the child" is truly not always in the best interest of the child.”
― Janine Myung Ja, Adoption Stories

“True enough, but with the number of young parishioners being molested by priests throughout the country, wouldn’t the church be wise not to send young male parishioners on camping trips with potential pedophiles?” Zack pressed. He could see himself trying this case.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

“When you dance with the Africans, unless it is a ritual dance like a wedding or harvest or rain dance, there’s no right or wrong way to dance. There’s only movement. And the more you express your feelings as you move, the better you feel when you’re done…When I dance the African Way, I show my feelings with my body instead of hiding them in my heart. When I dance, I know I’m alive here and now. My body and soul are in harmony.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

“This is bad luck for radio. Berlin reports Hitler has demanded—and Chamberlain more or less accepted—a plebiscite for the Sudeteners. The government here says it is out of the question. But they are afraid that is what happened at Berchtesgaden. In other words that Mr. Chamberlain has sold them down the river.”
― William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-41

“Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way. So each of us has to decide where WE stand, how we're going to live OUR lives. We can try to persuade ourselves that evil doesn't exist; live for ourselves and wink at evil. We can say that it isn't so bad after all, maybe even try to call it fun by clothing it in silks and velvets. We can compromise with it, keep quiet about it and say it's none of our business. Or we can work on God's side, listen for His orders on strategy against the evil, no matter how horrible it is, and know that He can transform it.”
― Catherine Marshall, Christy

“I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods have become like us. Ergo, we have become as gods.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“I made sure I let go of my past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life. I knew the black hole was out there, waiting to suck me in and forever control my destiny--but only if I let it. I took positive control over my life.
I'm so blessed. The challenges of the past made me immensely strong inside.”
― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

“The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

“For those of you who wish to get a feel for it, get in the car and bring it up to fifty miles an hour and then stick your head and arms outside and, while driving, try to fold up a simple bath towel in the wind”
― Gary Paulsen, Caught by the Sea

“Sol, listen,” came the Voice, modulated now so it did not boom from far above but almost whispered in his ear, “the future of humankind depends upon your choice. Can you offer Rachel out of love, if not obedience?” Sol heard the answer in his mind even as he groped for the words. There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his people, the Jews, had negotiated with God, complaining, bickering, decrying the unfairness of things but always—always—returning to obedience at whatever the cost. Generations dying in the ovens of hatred. Future generations scarred by the cold fires of radiation and renewed hatred. Not this time. Not ever again.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“What is the son but an extension of the father?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

“Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Real journalists pride themselves on getting it first and right; they get to the bottom of the story,”
― Jeannette Walls, Dish: The Inside Story On The World Of Gossip Became the News and How the News Became Just Another Show – An Insider's Provocative History of American Pop Culture and Celebrity Tabloids

“why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Знаете,что мне нужно? Мне всегда нужна женщина, которую я не смогу получить. Но сколь маловероятно,что я ее получу, столь же мало мне нужен кто-нибудь другой.”
― Patrick Süskind, El contrabajo

“When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“There must be possible a fiction which,
leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.”
― Ralph Ellison

“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
― Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

“Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
― Malcolm X

“Svaki put kad bi netko ustao i počeo pričati o lošim stvarima koje je učinio, jedan bi čovjek koji je uvijek sjedio na drugoj strani u kutu uvijek viknuo: „Reci sve! Reci sve!“ On bi to vikao svaki put kad bi izgledalo da će onaj koji je govorio završiti ispovijed, pa bi se taj pokušao sjetiti još nečeg lošeg što je bio učinio. Ponekad bi zato netko ispričao i prilično loše stvari koje možda inače ne bi bio ispričao. Ali taj čovjek koji je vikao „Reci sve!“ nikada nije ustajao ispovjediti se.”
― Forrest Carter, Malo drvo

“If there was one ideological rationale that had broad appeal, it was nationalism, which for many boiled down to a fervent desire to be left alone.”
― Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

“He edged closer to his father’s bones and sinews. Penny slipped an arm around him and he lay close against the lank thigh. His father was the core of safety. His father swam the swift creek to fetch back his wounded dog. The clearing was safe, and his father fought for it, and for his own. A sense of snugness came over him and he dropped asleep.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“En reuniones de gente envidiosa o vanidosa ¿no es, acaso, inútil explicar algo que sucedió en otros tiempos o que ahora mismo pasa en otros lugares?”
― Thomas More, UTOPÍA