Shadow Of The Torturer Quotes

#1. I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.

Caroline Knapp

#2. When winter comes, spring can't be far behind

Lesley Downer

#3. Only Americans think they have rights," Magic Gourd said. "What laws of heaven give you more rights and allow you to keep them? They are words on paper written by men who make them up and claim them. One day they can blow away, just like that." She

Amy Tan

#4. When people warn me against doing something once my mind is made up, I grow increasingly determined to try it.

Richard Branson

#5. People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy. But not completely lousy. You, Libby Strout, are great.

Jennifer Niven

#6. He's a mass of contradictions. Unfortunately, that only seems to enhance his appeal. I'm one sick bitch, that's for sure.

Siobhan Davis

#7. I've always had a bit of a feminine aura, but I don't mind. Russell Brand has one, too.

John Duover

#8. I don't know how long we stand there holding each other. It could be ten minutes, an hour, or a day. All I know is that when I finally let go, I can breathe. I can rest. I can live knowing that my baby girl is happy. Knowing that she felt my love.

Cassia Leo

#9. Years ago you followed someone
here, in love with breath
kissing the nape of your neck,
back when it was easy to be
at least two places at once.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#10. When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Don Kardong

#11. Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

Arthur Phillips