Marialena Ficarella Quotes

#1. The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.

Elisabeth Badinter

#2. Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn't anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept - the world aged, moved forward, yet I ... didn't.

Laura Kreitzer

#3. To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

Zig Ziglar

#4. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

Alexandra Bracken

#5. Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

Samuel Butler

#6. No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

Ken Stott

#7. He said I was too sad a nd that some day I wouldn't be sad anymore - and maybe then I would let someone love me.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. Condemned to Hope's delusive mine,
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away.

Samuel Johnson

#9. Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

William Shakespeare

#10. Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.

S.A. Tawks

#11. I do not stay to be nice. I stay because it is my duty - " "But, Mama can't find out, Muddy," Addy cautioned, interrupting him. "She'd have a heart attack." " - and because Adara has promised me hot monkey sex," Brand finished.

Lexi George

#12. The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#13. The Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery

Lemony Snicket