Halifax Online Quotes

#1. These days Geryon was experiencing a pain not felt since childhood.
His wings were struggling. They tore against each other on his shoulders
like the little mindless red animals they were.

Anne Carson

#2. A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

Marilynne Robinson

#3. To me, there's nothing worse than going to a concert and you're so looking forward to hearing your favorite song and they never play it. You're gutted.

Dido Armstrong

#4. Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.

Criss Jami

#5. Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

Jodi Picoult

#6. She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia ... " She gulped for air. " ... take thee Alexander ... " She gulped again. " ... to be my awful wedded husband ...

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#7. In Newport, we serve cheese or bacon-wrapped water chestnuts.

Marjorie Gubelmann

#8. I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.

George Eliot

#9. I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.

John Malkovich

#10. That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

Garth Stein