Gessel Blondet Quotes

#1. Have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

May Sarton

#2. A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

George Eliot

#3. Time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.

Meg O'Brien

#4. I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.

Mason Cooley

#5. Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Voltaire

#6. The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

George Herbert

#7. You see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory. He would hold my hand in his, tracing my finger along the brightest stars in the constellation. Look, he would say. There is the head, and the tail. There's the heart.

Jodi Picoult

#8. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

William O. Douglas

#9. I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.

Rick Riordan

#10. Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

Rosalynn Carter

#11. If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

Jay McInerney