Miegas Lashes Quotes

#1. It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Guy De Maupassant

#2. Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

Bob Seger

#3. Let's say that you have this mystical right to cut my legs off. But the right to ridicule me afterwards because I am a cripple - no, that I think you haven't got. And that's the right you hold most dearly, isn't it? You must be able to despise the people you exploit.

Jean Rhys

#4. I can't help thinking
Suppose the world was made for happiness after all.

Elizabeth Bowen

#5. Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. The world is like that
incomprehensible and full of surprises .

Jorge Amado

#7. Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

George Eliot

#8. Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

Stephen Elliott

#9. Glory?
Glory is for those too weak to find their inner strength, leaving them hollow parasites, feeding on the affection of even lesser men. Glory is for cowards, too afraid to let their names die.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden