Quotes About Ripped Paper

#1. We watch a character define himself entirely through what he will not claim. If I could choose one item from my entire apartment, what would I disown? It might be my trash can full of ripped paper packets, which might mean that this pile of packets is my most honest expression of self.

Leslie Jamison

#2. On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Amos Oz

#3. Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first.

Vicki Pettersson

#4. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.

Sarah Dessen

#5. The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Epictetus

#6. Have some Jell-O

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

#7. I ripped his spine straight out from him and watched as Raz folded into himself like crumpled paper.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

David Gross

#9. There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do ... there are things I watch my hand do that are almost thoughtless. I can remember the moment of learning them. It is knowledge you have in the hand.

Charles Simonds

#10. When she left, it was like someone had ripped my heart out, crumbled it up like a flimsy piece of loose leaf paper and crammed it back into my chest. It somehow managed to work, but it would never, ever feel the same.

Steph Campbell

#11. People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. Tenzin said, "More popcorn, my boy."
Giovanni ripped the plastic bag open and held the paper bag. "This is ridiculous. I'm not a kitchen appliance.

Elizabeth Hunter

#13. The best writing comes out when you find yourself broken. Your heart is ripped open and all the feelings spill out into a beautiful mess on paper.

Shannen Wrass

#14. Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

Voltaire

#15. A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

William Faulkner

#16. Not everything needs to be said at once. Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded. It is enough to start the telling. It's enough to have the beginning and feel like it's a beginning.

David Levithan

#17. There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

Kevin Brockmeier

#18. I stared at the phone in disbelief, then ripped a clean sheet of paper from my notebook. I scribbled ' Jerk ' on the first line. On the line beneath it I added, ' Smokes cigars. Will die of lung cancer. Hopefully soon.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#19. I fucked up. More than I have ever fucked up before. I had the love of my life in my hands for one beautiful, exquisite moment before I ripped her apart and my heart bore the paper cuts.

Karina Halle

#20. There are pages ripped out and taped all over one wall. (Not taped - stuck to the wall with spells.) (And this is exactly the sort of thing I'm sick of. Like, just use some tape. Why come up with a spell for sticking paper to the wall? Tape. Exists.)

Rainbow Rowell

#21. Physical pain inspires the worst kind of helplessness.

Hiromi Kawakami

#22. ripped the paper

Leah Devlin

#23. Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

David Levithan

#24. Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.

Adam McKay