Nerisha Soodeehul Quotes

#1. How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic. p 108

Abraham Verghese

#2. There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.

R. Alan Woods

#3. No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the gauntlet."
"Ohhhh," he said. "I thought you were speaking literally."
"I do beg your pardon. Let's literally throw up, but figuratively throw down.

Kevin Hearne

#4. If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Graham Greene

#6. It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

John Banville

#7. When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

Ann Hood

#8. His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#9. Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.

Sarah Ruhl

#10. Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Stephen Jay Gould

#11. Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.

Debasish Mridha

#12. When it comes to getting promoted, you want to present yourself in a way that feeds into the biases that bosses have about what makes someone promotable. You're already doing the hard work, so why not frame your effort in such a way that it increases your chances of obtaining the position you want?

Travis Bradberry