Comforting Delusions Quotes

#1. Focus. She's Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane's butt like that? ~ Zach

Monique DeVere

#2. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

#3. It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

Joe Biden

#4. I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn't have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

Jojo Moyes

#5. A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".

Kahlil Gibran

#6. I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

Sarah Dessen

#7. If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?

Lord Dunsany

#8. If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#9. Looking out the rain-fogged window at the gray November day, Mary felt almost grateful for the snug warmth of her well-heated chamber. Escape, the captive queen decided with a yawn, would have to wait until spring.

Margaret George

#10. To be young is to be powerless, but to have delusions of power. To believe that one can really change things, make the world better and simpler in good and simple ways. To grow old is to realize that nobody is ever good, nothing is ever simple. That truth is cruel at first, but finally comforting.

Frances Hardinge