Top 37 Derouen Quotes
#1. He leans close to me again, gently placing his hand on my cheek and stares straight into my eyes. "I know that this thing we have - you and me - there is no end, Sara. You don't have to worry about life without me, because I go where you go.
J.A. DeRouen
#2. Nothing in this world worth having is perfect.
J.A. DeRouen
#4. My soul feels lighter at the mere sight of him. Complicated feels simple. Unlikely feels inevitable. Only he makes me feel this way - like I can climb whatever mountain life puts in our path.
J.A. DeRouen
#5. Nails on skin, teeth on lips, and hearts on sleeves, we tumble over the edge, together.
J.A. DeRouen
#6. No matter where I am, I'll always love you. I promise you always.
J.A. DeRouen
#7. Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
Thomas Carlyle
#8. Wow," he said after their lips parted. Her taste still haunted his mouth, and the smell of her perfume lingered in his nostrils. "I guess I'll have to get in fights more often.
Joe DeRouen
#9. My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.
Talib Kweli
#10. Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting.
Joe DeRouen
#11. cheap, pea-green carpet looming up at him all
Joe DeRouen
#12. Please, don't fall into yourself. Fall into me, Sara. Because God knows I've fallen into you.
J.A. DeRouen
#13. I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.
Roberto Duran
#14. Finally, mercifully, the spasms subsided, as the old man's head lolled back, his mouth hanging open, taking in deep, ragged breaths of stale, recirculated air.
Joe DeRouen
#15. I want to live a lifetime in this moment--these precious seconds between anticipation and ectasy.
J.A. DeRouen
#16. I know he was the life of your life. I get it, I really do. But what if I told you that you were mine?
J.A. DeRouen
#17. How did his brain come to derive comfort from fishing rather than from compulsive sexual behavior? At this point we simply don't know. Neurofeedback changes brain connectivity patterns; the mind follows by creating new patterns of engagement.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#18. Our love is not effortless. We've clawed our way through the brush and fire to get here today. But aren't the things we bleed for the most precious?
J.A. DeRouen
#19. Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
Alan Bennett
#20. I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.
D.A. Wallach
#21. That one small touch is the beginning of the most memorable kiss of my life. It's hello and goodbye, I love you, I'll miss you, and everything in between.
J.A. DeRouen
#22. Thank God Ben had been there to wake her.
But then, when hadn't he been there? It was she that kept pushing him away. Even as a kid, before his adoration of her had turned into a full-blown crush, she'd kept him at arm's length.
Joe DeRouen
#23. Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!
Candace Wheeler
#24. Creativity healed me. I don't know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing.
SARK
#25. She stared at her face in the mirror, feeling everything around her slipping away. The face stared back, and she wondered who was looking at her.
Joe DeRouen
#26. Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.
Pope Francis
#27. I've lived a life overrun with gravity and momentum. My choices run parallel with the current of circumstance.
Not anymore. I'm through with gravity. I loathe momentum. I crave the turbulence of emotions. I want the push, the pull, the ache, the fall.
I want the storms.
J.A. DeRouen
#29. If it's ever too much ... if the burden of me is ever too great--"
Softly, I place my hands over his lips, silently begging him to stop.
"Don't you know? You are not my burden. Never." I brush my lips lightly against his. "You? You are my gift.
J.A. DeRouen
#30. You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.
D.H. Lawrence
#31. Why didn't you escape?"
"Because," she panted, releasing the boy's arm, "no one tells me what to do, not even you. And besides, if you didn't catch it before, I 'm awfully fond of you.
Joe DeRouen
#32. Don't let the cynic in you drown out the dreamer.
J.A. DeRouen
#33. She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she'd momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and nearly fell over, then slumped against the green-covered table. The bowl fell from her fingers, shattering at her feet, broken glass scattering everywhere.
Joe DeRouen
#34. He'd need the woman's help to set things right; he just didn't like having to wake the dead.
Joe DeRouen
#35. She stared at the phone, feeling guilty. She finally slid across the overstuffed Pleather couch and away from watching old episodes of The Twilight Zone. She was free tonight, apparently, so she might as well pay Ben a visit. She picked up the phone and dialed his cell.
Joe DeRouen
#36. Fred Ruskin barreled through the rain down Buchanan Street in his battered Pacer, the jar his dead wife had directed him to retrieve from his nephew's coffin bouncing in the seat beside him.
Joe DeRouen
#37. She was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her.
Clarice Lispector
