Amma Preaker Quotes

#1. It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?

Benjamin Stone

#2. Highly sensitive people are often afraid to speak up, until life pushes them to do so.

Doreen Virtue

#3. I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

Colin Quinn

#4. My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

Spike Milligan

#5. Aidi nodded. "Lying to yourself's always a problem," he said.

K.J. Parker

#6. It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

Jacques Barzun

#7. What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

J.D. Robb

#8. Structuring our feelings helps add reality to them. In fact, para-doxically, many of the invalidating things that people do are attempts to structure us. But the time for structuring is after validation. After our feelings have been validated, we can understand them and put them into perspective.

Henry Cloud

#9. That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven.

Marian Keyes

#10. She and her mother both gave that odd impression of having been outlined somehow, drawn with such vivid strokes and delicate detail that they stood out from their background as though they'd been engraved on it.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. Placid, adj.
Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

David Levithan

#12. Do not quit too soon. The future is bright like a shining diamond.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: "I wish I'd be murdered." Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.

Gillian Flynn

#14. I love Maje, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Christopher Kane, Felder + Felder, and Sam Edelman shoes.

Amber Le Bon

#15. Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.

Wu Guanzhong

#16. Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Charles Dickens