Maciel Quotes

#1. I became an actor because I couldn't not.

Debra Winger

#2. You're weird,' he says.
Despite everythin, I smile. 'You're always saying that, but in fact, you're weird,' I say.
'Yeah, I know. Remember? That's how I can tell you're weird, too.

Amanda Maciel

#3. When the doors are open big gusts of cold air sweep into the car, and suddenly it smells damp and earthly, that early smell that tells you all the snow and ice is melting and someday the sun will come out again.

And maybe it will, for some other girl.

Amanda Maciel

#4. Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

Kailash Satyarthi

#6. While there may be thorns and disappointments, while there may be heartache, even heartbreak, there can be peace and comfort and strength from the Lord for those who follow Him.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#7. so the knowledge of their presence remained, for the time being, strictly within the bounds of people's private thoughts, lying dormant in a corner of their minds like a secret language spoken only at home.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. Don't add silence to your list of regrets.

Amanda Maciel

#9. An ugly man, with a face sharp like a weasel and a habit of running a flickering tongue over his lips before he speaks. But most ugly of all are his eyes: blue, bright blue. When people see them, they flinch. Such things are freakish. He is lucky he was not killed at birth.

Madeline Miller

#10. Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?" ... I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Abraham Verghese

#11. I'm not alone, I think. Carmichael's height, his black T-shirt, black jeans, and dark hair feel like a protective wall beside me. But I am alone. I am completely alone.

Amanda Maciel

#12. Wanton kittens make sober cats.

Laura Frantz

#13. Something about this small glimmer of happiness feels wrong, but I can't think about that. I just hold onto the glimmer, the shred. I let myself feel a tiny bit happy. Even though it kind of hurts.

Amanda Maciel

#14. At the front door I see Tommy, a dark, unhappy shape in the middle of the sunny afternoon. We match, I think. But we don't go together.

Amanda Maciel

#15. But how do you apologize for this? I know what I did, I know it was bad, some of it was really bad. But how am I supposed to fix anything now?

Amanda Maciel

#16. Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa.

Edward Said

#17. When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

Epictetus

#18. Having negative thoughts and feelings means I'm a normal human being.

Russ Harris

#19. I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

Hans Kung

#20. Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

Frank J. Sulloway

#21. And if Christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would he be in heaven?

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Mary Church Terrell

#23. Charity is the secret weapon Jesus Christ places in our hands, the only thing that can assure us of victory.
The first on to use it will win.

Marcial MacIel

#24. I look down and see my hands uncapping the pen, turning the notepad right-side up on my knees. My mouth is dry, my stomach is in knots, my life is over, my heart is broken.

I start to write.

Amanda Maciel