Quotes About Slowly Breaking

#1. Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she will never find them anywhere else; those burnt and scented shores, those waves slowly breaking, jasmine petals flaking in the sun.

Dacia Maraini

#2. I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

Edward Abbey

#3. The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#4. Whatever else came tomorrow and for the rest of her life, she would have this moment: this one point in time when she was intimately linked to Maximus.
Maximus the man.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#5. The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Baron De Montesquieu

#6. A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Grown-up
Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#7. I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

Charlotte Eriksson

#8. Turning her body slightly to the left, he gently bends her knee, breaking eye contact to lick her slowly, from Venice to Trieste - then down the Croatian Coast, the length of Serenissima.

Kristen Caven

#9. Dear agony,
just let go of me,
suffer slowly,
is this the way it's gotta be?

Breaking Benjamin

#10. Uncle knows best.

Philip Reeve

#11. I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

Nicholas Sparks

#12. After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

Merlin Olsen

#13. If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

Jim Thompson

#14. Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

Kahlil Gibran

#15. The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.

Isabel Allende

#16. Be gracious to me, O LORD!

Anonymous

#17. Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

Tonya Hurley

#18. Fantasies die slow, quiet deaths. They're like cherry blossoms breaking away and sailing down slowly, still holding onto their color and their softness and beauty, but ending up on the ground to be blown out by cold winds.

V.C. Andrews