Manchineel Tree Quotes

#1. I was resting in the shadow of that ideal happiness as in the shade of the poisonous manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. That's the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That's putting the old foot down. If she's determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn't have it in peace.

J.D. Salinger

#3. I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

Raymond Carver

#4. Only those you trust can betray you.

Terry Goodkind

#5. Why don't you just put me down for a couple of boxes of cookies and go earn your next patch bothering someone else." - Jayke Wolff

Shawn Keenan

#6. The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Jack Kornfield

#7. Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

M. Scott Peck

#8. Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. The master is bringing Darwin through to examine lower life-forms, Rhoda. Straighten your spine or you'll be mistook for a mollusk.

Gregory Maguire

#10. My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.

Warsan Shire

#11. I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

Fisher Stevens

#12. The Republican abuse of the term feminism in the past decade or so is an astonishing lesson in the politically opportunistic use of language.

Nina Power

#13. Breathe through your eyes," she said. "I'm sorry?" "It relaxes the muscles. It's called pranayama.

Dan Brown