Quotes About Bahama

#1. Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but she could not keep her promise unless she was willing to allow Nik to be Nik, not a projection of someone who could fill in all her empty spaces, heal all her wounds.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. You weren't making love to a slave, you were making love to me.' And he couldn't think that through clearly but he could catch a glimmer of it, a glimmer of the edge of it. 'I thought you wouldn't, I thought you'd never - ' He took a step forward.

C.S. Pacat

#3. Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

Siri Hustvedt

#4. The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.

Stephen King

#5. Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.

Neal Stephenson

#6. I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

Robert Dessaix

#8. My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#9. That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

Patricia Highsmith

#10. In an interview in 1992, Leary stated, "It is a genetic imperative to explore the brain. Because it's there. If you're carrying around in your head 100 billion mainframe computers, you just have to get in there and learn how to operate them.

Maxwell Maltz