Top 13 Conviva Pembroke Quotes
#1. What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
John Le Carre
#2. A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
Mary Jo Putney
#4. He kissed her then.
There.
In the middle of the sentence.
Rainbow Rowell
#5. It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel, "Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society")
Amy Hill Hearth
#6. In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.
James Maxton
#7. When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages.
Molly Friedenfeld
#8. They sleep despite noise, despite cold, despite hunger, as though desperate to stay removed from the waking world for as long as possible.
Anthony Doerr
#9. There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
Bruce Jenner
#10. I began to pick through the red rivers
of confusion;
I began to take apart
the deep stitches
of nightmares.
Mary Oliver
#11. What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.
Luanne Rice
#12. It is not given to each of us
To be desired.
Mina Loy
#13. The language of a smile is charming, mesmerizing, meaningful, and often mysterious, but everyone understands a smile better than words.
Debasish Mridha