Alice Pung Unpolished Gem Quotes

#1. The world spins despite me, not because of me, he muttered. Last week, one of his coworkers died after twenty-five years of service. There was an email and eulogy sent by one of the managers - and then a mad scramble by everyone else to loot his office supplies.

Wesley Chu

#2. When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

Franz Kafka

#4. Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?

Rachel Caine

#5. You must be very specific in your wishes or they'll come back to haunt you.

Erica Jong

#6. It was only by scorning all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently painful.

Virginia Woolf

#7. by Rebecca 0 minutes ago
" Tink's titties!" Jenks from any of Kim Harrison's books on The Hollows. (aka Cincinnati,OH)

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Kim Harrison

#8. Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Craig Ferguson

#9. In this fleeting life, there is nothing stronger than a visual idea or moment stopped in time forever. And nothing does this better than a black-and-white photograph.

Richard Olsenius

#10. Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.

Caroline Myss

#11. You can't change the past, it just is

Alyson Noel

#12. reminded me on Friday night that we aren't friends, Cressida, and I would like you to remember that now,' she snapped. 'So why don't you go and make someone else feel crap about their life and then when you're done with that, go and look for your boyfriend's chin,

Kate Forster

#13. Lord Jesus, bring comfort to all those who mourn and peace of heart to those under pressure and tension, in Jesus Christ's name

T. B. Joshua

#14. Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions.

Olivia Palermo

#15. In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

Nancy Gibbs