T.M. > T.M.'s Quotes

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
― Peter Ustinov

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Write - because you will explode if you don't, your brain will expand with words like a balloon filling with air....”
― Sarah Colliver

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places." Winnie-the-Pooh”
― R.L. Nolen

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“They don't realize evil lives on their streets”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“La vida en blanco o negro es un ardid ficticio de los inseguros: navegar en los bravíos mares de los grises no es para cualquiera...”
― Gonzalo Guma

“One thing Pete had learned over the years as a participant in so many disparate cultures, and as a family historian, is that almost nothing that can be imagined is impossible, and that, in fact, most of those things, in one form or another, have occurred. Scary really.”
― Peter Heller, Celine

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones