Top 35 Mcfadyen Quotes
#1. By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#2. Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Luc De Clapiers
#4. That I gave a bad blow job." She bats her eyes sweetly. "Will the Big Guy forgive me? I never did it again, and I'm a much better cocksucker now, I promise.
Cody McFadyen
#5. Ah, James, our James," she says, sounding wistful. "Can't live with him, can't kill him slowly enough." - Callie (pg. 141)
Cody McFadyen
#6. You just have to live and love and do your best in both. That's God, and that's heaven, and it's not something we have to wait until we die to find. It's here, now, in all of us.
Cody McFadyen
#7. History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. Grief is like that sometimes. Like water, it finds any opening, forces itself through any crack until it explodes, inexorable.
Cody McFadyen
#11. Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.
Chris Kilham
#12. There is little scientific data on the point, but evidently people do speak to themselves.
David Crystal
#13. On the set you just have to listen very closely, listen to everyone around you, absorb everything and try to be what they want you to be with the little bitty line that you'd have to say. If it was a good line, it would be such fun to say it with vigor.
Joan Leslie
#15. You can love the ocean, and many do, but don't expect it to love you back. It's too forever
Cody McFadyen
#16. The First Rule of Mom: Love. The Second Rule of Mom: Feed your offspring.
Cody McFadyen
#17. The simple fact is that evil preys on good, and today, good had a bad day. Which brings with it an acceptance of the other side of that argument, that tomorrow might be evil's turn for some rain. And that's called hope.
Cody McFadyen
#18. You can't change the cards you are dealt unless you stack the deck.
Terry Blakeman
#19. J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.
Donald Ray Pollock
#20. She doesn't speak, and I say nothing more. We just stare at each other, letting the tears roll down our cheeks. That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed.
Cody McFadyen
#21. Most people can't truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ways, from the beating of your heart, to the sun on your face, to the feel of the ground beneath your feet. It grasps you.
Cody McFadyen
#22. His story remains behind, echoing inside me, a tale of impossible choices.
Cody McFadyen
#23. A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around.
Cody McFadyen
#24. Having a ten-year-old daughter can be like living with a fairy. Something magical.
Cody McFadyen
#25. Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emotional vulnerabilities that slowly destroy the rest of us.
Crystal Woods
#26. I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent
#27. There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
William Cowper
#28. That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed. Pg. 109
Cody McFadyen
#29. Life is smoke, plain and simple; we just fool ourselves that it's otherwise. All it takes is one good gust and we float away and disappear, leaving behind only the scent of our passing in the form of memories.
Cody McFadyen
#30. Real people are messy and complicated and generally inconvenient, but at least they are there,
Cody McFadyen
#31. You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.
Tracey Ullman
#32. One of the gifts of a long marriage is the ability to communicate anything - from mild displeasure to the meaning of life - with a single glance. It's something you develop in the process of mixing your soul with your spouse's, if you're willing to mix your soul.
Cody McFadyen
#33. The symphony of motherhood, it's about loving with absolute abandon, loving without regard for self, loving with a near totality of being. It's about a passion that could outburn the sun with its brightness. About a depthless hope and a fierce, rending joy.
Cody McFadyen
#34. As much as we might like to break, we're really only made to bend.
Cody McFadyen
#35. The truth is, bad things are going to happen somewhere, every single day, and today was just your turn.
Cody McFadyen
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