Najla Said Quotes

#1. I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#2. I feel like I'm losing my damn mind, like your face has been carved into my heart, and I don't remember when, and I don't understand why, but the scar is there, and I can't get it to heal. It won't go. I can't make it fade. And you won't even look at me.

Alexandra Bracken

#3. Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Oscar Wilde

#4. I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.

Willie Mays

#5. I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

Conor Oberst

#6. But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Theodor Adorno

#7. I don't know, cabin pressure. It might squish the babies

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#8. Everyone danced
sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

Holly Black

#9. In other words, we want to believe that Mark Spitz was born to swim in a way that none of us were and that none of us could. We don't want to sit on the pool deck and watch him progress from amateur to expert. We prefer our excellence fully formed. We prefer mystery to mundanity.

Angela Duckworth

#10. When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.

Miriam Schapiro

#11. I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn't. It excites me. I am in Plato's cave, watching the shadows and fraught with the desire to hunt what casts them.

Nenia Campbell

#12. Okay, that's just bull." Aurelia snorted. "You can't be friends with someone you have the fuzzies for. Oh sure you can try, but sooner or later the fuzzy will get to you and before you know it, out with the self control and you both will be going at it like bunnies.

Delia Winters

#13. I am a man of my word.

Aleatha Romig

#14. Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

Terry Pratchett