Debut Quotes

“...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times...
...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on...

Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder”
― Elizabeth Funderbirk, Love Torn Asunder

“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.”
― Janet Goodfriend, For the Love of Art

“Goodbye, control," Maggie muttered, her hands trembling with a mix of excitement and nerves. "Hello, fantasy.”
― Sara Jane Stone, Command Performance

“People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they’re wrong. It’s not your life that passes before you, it’s the regrets that do.”
― Heather Jacobs, We the People

“I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, life always spills over the parameters of how anyone has chosen to define it.”
― Cyril Wong, The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza

“Dance like the whole world is your stage and every day is your debut.”
― Emilyann Allen (pseudonyms Emilyann Phoenix and Emilyann Girdner)

“For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph; to wake up together each morning a luxury.”
― Jolene Tan, A Certain Exposure

“In its basic form, nursing can be seen as a duty, but beyond the incessant operational activities that lay the foundation of our daily work, the profession is all about grace. Helping people is a noble calling. It is a privilege to serve my fellow human beings. Fifteen years has seen many ups and downs at the workplace, but I have enjoyed serving the many patients who come into my care, and have prayed for the souls of those who were on the brink of death.”
― Katherine Soh, Nurse Molly Returns

“There used to be a rubbish heap under the great tree in Dhoby Ghaut with a sarabat stall parked next to it. It was a low, sprawling rubbish heap made up of the usual things—refuse from dustbins, paper, old tins and slippers and leaves from the tree above. Then one day, people forgot about it. They found a new dumping place and the old rubbish heap settled low on the ground. Time passed and its contents became warm and rich and fertile and people living in the area would take away potfuls of it to plant flowers in.

Somehow, a rose cutting, slim as a cheeping chicken’s leg and almost brown, appeared on the rubbish heap one day.”
― Gregory Nalpon, The Wayang at Eight Milestone: Stories & Essays

“You've managed to unlock the door to the library - now it's time to learn how to read.”
― Olga Gibbs, Heavenward

“But seriously Holden, what is the island called now?”

“Sentosa,” Holden said romantically and with a flourish of his unoccupied left hand.

“Sentosa. Sounds romantic all right. So this is the progress you’re talking about?”
― Robert Yeo, The Adventures of Holden Heng

“We're one pack, pup. A wolf who runs alone will never find success.”
― M.J. Marinescu, Forsaken Genesis

“Don’t look behind us,” he said. “No matter what you hear.” But I did. I looked anyway. And now it’s coming. Closer. Too close.”
― Poheli Author, Lust Marked: The beginning of the End

“Brian organised for the body to be flown back.”
― Jolene Tan, A Certain Exposure

“English. That was where I met him.”
― Andrew Koh, Glass Cathedral

“If you want to be a poet, there is no greater mistake you could make than to publish whatever work you have as soon as you can. Why? Well because your debut is the only shot you have. It should be made of dynamite. There is nothing worse - believe me - than to have an oeuvre with a mediocre debut, and likely you wont get that far at all, and you will wait for reviews that wont come, just a horrible idea really. I don't need tell this to the rare and extreme talents - they are like a force of nature - but i am talking to the rest of you. People who love their youth don't make it easy on them - making it easy for them is a way to destroy them, But the representatives of my generation have no clue,or idea about Bildung at all, which is why I am at odds with most of them.”
― Martinus Hendrikus Benders

“Коли Коцюбинський спробував прилаштувати це оповідання, співробітник «Киевской старины» порадив йому кинути «невідповідне» заняття і «не калічити святу нашу мову».”
― Олександр Михед, Живі. Зрозуміти українську літературу

“Some souls feel like the moon...
distant,
radiant,
and never truly ours.”
― @whis_persof_ink

“With you, my sweetheart,
I want a lifetime-
To live, to fall,
To laugh and cry,
And someday,
To leave this world hand in hand…
just like we stayed.

Because with you, my love-forever feels like a place I already belong.”
― @whis_persof_ink