Eclipse Iris > Eclipse Iris's Quotes

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?”
― Lemony Snicket

“She made her way to the village, walking through walls of fear. The air was heavy, almost unbeatable, and people moved in fitful motions, as if unsure that one leg should follow the other.”
― Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water

“War changed people. It created cowardice and bravery and produced legends.”
― Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water

“The most anguished pains and blissful triumphs will fade to nothing. All that will matter is this love”
― Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water

“My teta hung the sky every morning, like a sapphire sheet on a clothesline pirouetting in the breeze”
― Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water

“Why didn't you bang the sides of the tank? Why didn't you say anything?”
― Ghassan Kanafani

“Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.”
― Ghassan Kanafani

“If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.”
― Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building

“I’m a miserable cynic (a newer development) and a dreamy romantic (always have been), and it’s such a terrible combination that I don’t know how to tolerate myself.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“All I know is that it’s a bad idea to fulfill your physical needs if you won’t fulfill my emotional ones.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“Her father once told her casually that she was built like a plum on toothpicks, and the phrase was at once so cruel and so poetic that it clicked into place around her like a harness. • • •”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

“Joel wants the policy team to generate revenue. The way he sees it, Facebook is a business and the policy team should be contributing to the bottom line. He doesn’t want to be viewed as a “cost center” internally. Political advertising is a way to change that. And elections are the biggest opportunity.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“Whenever my mother was around, reality took on the dimensions of a fun-house mirror. Insanity was simply a result of being a frequent Starbucks customer, size eight was a stage of obesity that required medical intervention, and any man I dated was clearly having to make do with a second-rate substitute for Candy Varner. And anything I had ever done or said could be conveniently rewritten to suit whatever spin she had chosen.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger

“I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger