Patura Quotes

#1. They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows.

Stephen King

#2. No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

Grace Paley

#3. I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

Junko Tabei

#4. Nothing goes perfectly for us. But ... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something ... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

Takehiko Inoue

#5. I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

Sarah Dessen

#6. Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

Epictetus

#8. The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

George Eliot

#9. If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.

Steve Toltz

#10. I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.

Samuel Larsen

#11. That's a good fellow,' Sturmhond said to Ivan. 'Now, I'll take the prisoner back to her quarters, and you can run off and do ... whatever it is you do when everyone else is working.'
Ivan scowled. 'I don't think - '
'Clearly. Why start now?

Leigh Bardugo

#12. Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it

J.R.D. Tata

#13. Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young.

Joey Comeau