Petrarchan Conceit Quotes

#1. My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
"Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea.

George Eliot

#2. Your body is begging for me to fuck it, Gemma, and I think your mind is too."
I can't help myself from responding. "I think you're already doing that."
"What?" he quietly demands.
"Fucking with my mind.

Ella Frank

#3. Let me remember I am one with God. Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while.

Esther Hicks

#4. I never tell them about our lives. You know why? It is not because I am ashamed. It is because some things are just good, too good to be judged.

Alice Pung

#5. My father hauled boxes so I could get an education and earn enough money to pay someone to make me lift weights.

Dana Gould

#6. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it.

Markus Zusak

#7. My momma used to say that a girl had to find her prince after wading through the frogs.

Shelly Crane