Raphael Semmes Quotes

#1. The smell of blood ... it was on his breath.
What does he do? I think. Drink it? I imagine him sipping it from a teacup. Dipping a cookie into the stuff and pulling it out dripping red.

Suzanne Collins

#2. Staring at him the
way she might stare at a beloved place she
was not sure she would ever see again, trying
to commit the details to memory, to paint
them on the backs of her eyelids that she
might see it when she shut her eyes to sleep.

Cassandra Clare

#3. You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.

Halsey

#4. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Kafka, Franz

#5. When the road gets dark - And you can no longer see - Just let my love throw a spark - And have a little faith in me.

John Hiatt

#6. Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.

Caitlin Moran

#7. Georgeta cleared her throat, and pushed herself deeper into the sofa cushion.
"You know Penelope Stephanopoulos, Jasmira's best friend?" she asked.
"That Greek redhead with an attitude bigger than the Parthenon?" Erik snorted.

A.O. Peart

#8. To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.

Teju Cole

#9. So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man.

Rajneesh

#10. Liberty is always destroyed by the multitude, in the name of liberty.

Raphael Semmes

#11. He said it like tumbling, like if he didn't get it out quickly enough, we'd both fall apart. But weren't we doing that already?

Jodi Meadows

#12. Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

Murray Rothbard