My Beloved Tourniquet Quotes

#1. Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. That's the hottest guy she's seen in weeks, and now there was no chance of ever getting to know those smoky gray eyes,or his pouty lips.

Solange Nicole

#3. Just love. The rest is bullshit.

Satyananda Saraswati

#4. He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Helen makes a mental note to pick up a self help book the next time she was out. This was getting ridiculous.

Solange Nicole

#6. She deftly snatches her mace and holds it in her purse for cover. She's totally not about to be taken in by some pale silver eyed maniac.

Solange Nicole

#7. His smoke eyes lighten as she closes the gap between them, and he slowly seals it wrapping his arms about her.

Solange Nicole

#8. When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live.
When you know that every truth you seek is available within you,
you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.

Alan Cohen

#9. Watching the couple, she silently wishes she had just cleaned out her damn coffee pot.

Solange Nicole

#10. Even as she walks through the door she can feel the eyes of the dark figure in the corner.

Solange Nicole

#11. It felt as real as the dusty air she sucked in before and rushed out after.

Solange Nicole

#12. In one swift motion she's out of his arms twirling about. Startled and then ecstatic, she feels lighter than air, laughing in spite of herself. Light hearted, she keeps spinning feeling the stress and pain strip away from her. She was surprised by how confident she felt. How alive.

Solange Nicole

#13. The ruby droplets absorbed by the pitiful tourniquet.

Solange Nicole

#14. Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

John Mayer

#15. I love what I do and I love the fans.

George Eads

#16. First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision!

Gordon Dahlquist

#17. It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Dick Gregory

#18. Of course the edges of the wound struggle to close up
and the clock wants to be set going
(how awkward to be pointing permanently to half past one)
amputated limbs feel phantom pain

Katarina Mazetti

#19. Echo shifts, and her bottom presses into me. I take advantage and draw her closer. Her tank rides up, and I rest my palm against the heat of her stomach. I lived too long in cold isolation before Echo stumbled into my life, bringing her warmth and love.

Katie McGarry

#20. The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

Haruki Murakami

#21. The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.

Chuck Klosterman

#22. Carmen saves the young child and is rewarded with a look of gratitude. His smile turns into a puzzle as he no longer hold the little girl, but his dark haired goddess

Solange Nicole