Rosario Ferre Quotes

#1. There is something so elemental, so primeval about human tears that the sound of them causes ripples and tremors to course up and down the spine and through the bloodstream; and my own tears, that day, had just that effect upon me.

Irfan Orga

#2. Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.

Lori Wilde

#3. Every kid has a story to tell!

Marissa Moss

#4. Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

Rosario Ferre

#5. Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.

Rosario Ferre

#6. Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. Our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

Rosario Ferre

#8. A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral ...

Rosario Ferre

#9. Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist ...

Rosario Ferre

#10. Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

Rosario Ferre

#11. I write because I am poorly adjusted to reality. ("The Writer's Kitchen")

Rosario Ferre

#12. It dawns on you one day ... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause you any amount of suffering, ever. Then the next time you step out the door you look at everyone and you're thinking, My life is precious and you're not allowed to hurt me.

C. JoyBell C.

#13. What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Joyce Meyer

#14. There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

Rubem Alves

#15. My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Richard M. Nixon