Karleen Quotes

#1. Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.

Alan C. Martin

#2. What do you know of love? It comes from being with someone, from facing life together! Life in its awfulness as well as its joy! You love a handsome face. Nothing more!

Karleen Koen

#3. Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual."

Tinie Tempah

#4. Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.

Karleen Koen

#5. Oh ... God. What was a male supposed to do in this situation?
"I'm sorry," he muttered. "If I ... uh, hurt your feelings or something."
She glared at him. "I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.

J.R. Ward

#6. And most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like ... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.

Susan Glaspell

#7. Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Michael Cunningham

#8. What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.

Karleen Koen

#9. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.

Karleen Koen

#11. The expendables first, defenders second and the most vulnerable in the inside.

Amish Tripathi

#12. Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.

Karleen Koen

#13. The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.

Lisa Loeb

#14. Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.

Karleen Koen

#15. Young humans are real pieces of abstracted contradictions," Uri said.

Cathrina Constantine

#16. Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

Desmond Tutu

#17. ...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams.

Karleen Koen

#18. I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.

Kevin Garnett

#19. I have this dream, she and I side by side in life, turning front to front in lovemaking, back to back in threat, protecting each other.

Karleen Koen

#20. Nothing changes and everything does.

Karleen Koen

#21. Discouragement is a mental disorder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.

Lauren Conrad

#23. She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste.

Karleen Koen

#24. What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

Karleen Koen

#25. All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

Gabriela Mistral

#26. There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.

Karleen Koen