Top 16 Demba Quotes
#1. The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name silently and to sense its apt harmony with the precise, satisfying image she had of her own features and of the Khady heart that dwelled within her to which no one but she had access.
Marie NDiaye
#2. I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to describe it ... maybe I'll go with surly.
Helen Oyeyemi
#3. I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. Nature even on the most local of scales made a mockery of information technology. Even augmented by tech, the human brain was paltry, infinitesimal, in comparison to the universe.
Jonathan Franzen
#5. There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, Go.
Lauren DeStefano
#7. Made no fuss and helped around the house without making a song and dance about it. She'll make Dr Fforde a good wife, reflected Aunt Leticia.
Betty Neels
#8. Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
#9. God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.
Philo
#10. Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.
Stanley Bing
#11. Don't you want to forget it, if it's past?"
"I don't know. I don't know just how you mean that."
"I mean, are you sorry?"
"No. Would I do the same thing again? Yes."
"Do you mean with somebody else, or with her?"
"With her," Therese said.
Patricia Highsmith
#12. I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.
Dasha Zhukova
#13. nonsenses to them that reminded her of
Anne Perry
#14. When most of us are walking around in higher states of consciousness most of the time, more creative solutions will be envisioned.
Bill Harvey
#15. It doesn't always have to be so hard. Sometimes falling in love just means turning around and seeing what's right in front of you.
Alice Clayton