Fleurs Du Mal Quotes

#1. Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

Orhan Pamuk

#2. Through college she had been a feminist - basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.

Lorrie Moore

#3. The old adage applied: if God were in the details, Colonel Washington would have been there to greet him upon arrival.

Joseph J. Ellis

#4. His mother was as frosty as the polar icecaps. His sister was gone. Who did he have that cared about him? Who would remind him that he mattered?

Sofia Grey

#5. I deny being a slave to any one thing. In any situation we can choose who we are and choose who we want to be.

Renee Ahdieh

#6. People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same.

Madeline Miller

#7. My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

Charles Baudelaire