Khassan Quotes

#1. The botanist was a decent man, but Khassan was in love, and thus capable of infinite hate.

Anthony Marra

#2. Akhmed's eight-day-old eyes had held the reflection of ten thousand possible lives. Khassan wasn't an emotive or superstitious man, and nothing like it had ever happened again, but he had found, layered in the infant's half-lidded eyes, innumerable, wanting faces, none of which he had recognized.

Anthony Marra

#3. This changed when Khassan joined them, once every few months, as the invisible structure built between them failed to support the weight of another man. p 140

Anthony Marra

#4. It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

Sara Maitland

#5. Divine Love is the key to all of existence.
Without it, nothing can survive. Every one of us is only seeking one thing.
Though it is called by many names (God, Alpha and Omega, Allah, etc..) it's
ultimate name is Divine Love.

C.Michelle Gonzalez

#6. By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

Virginia Postrel

#7. Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

Jillian Lauren

#8. Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.

John Oates

#9. Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she considered herself to be a virgin. Her intent had been to present herself as such when she found "Mr. Right."

Jess C. Scott

#10. Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention ... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.

Ron Ben-Israel

#11. I love the physicality of books.

Rick Smolan

#12. Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.

Goldwin Smith

#13. The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40 yards. Ballstriking is where I'm trying to improve, yes, but more to eliminate big numbers than make birdies.

Phil Mickelson

#14. People don't want to be healed. They want a nice juicy wound that will show well when they put neon lights around it.

Kenneth Patchen

#15. If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks.

Apparat

#16. It seemed we Chechens spend our energies building our houses and our lives, only to have the devastated and to start rebuilding them again.

Khassan Baiev

#17. History after all is the true poetry.

Thomas Carlyle

#18. Guess now who holds thee?" - "Death," I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, - "Not Death, but Love." - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Wayne W. Dyer

#19. The sky which had started out with such verve and spirit in the morning was beginning to lose its concentration and slip back into its normal English condition, that of a damp and rancid dish cloth.

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