Dayra Balladares Quotes

#1. The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Clarence Darrow

#2. The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.

Eliza Doolittle

#3. Wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

Deb Caletti

#4. Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#5. Why couldn't he understand the pain in his chest or the thoughts in his own mind?

Ashley John

#6. 'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

Vidal Sassoon

#7. Demalion, we're alive.' Pantera's voice was unusually clipped, as if his patience had finally run to an end. 'If we were trying to get ourselves killed, we three would have managed it, I think. Two officers of the Fifth and a spy trained by Seneca could manage that much at least.

M.C. Scott

#8. I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

Alice Munro

#9. The only thing one can count on is that no one else can truly be counted on. Alice

Kate Morton

#10. It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

Jane Wiedlin

#11. ...that's the point, you can say anything to strangers. But that isn't completely true. You can't just say 'anything'.

Paula Hawkins

#12. As the eclipse progresses, a confusion of chattering birds sweeps low in search of dusk and their shadows skip over the water's surface and it makes perfect sense that these small creatures should be so moved by events beyond their reckoning.

John Pipkin