She Who Stands Alone During Adversity Quotes

#1. The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#2. It is the tree of dreams, I have sat here so many times over the years and wondered how my life would turn out.... Luke

Ella Emerson

#3. This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Livy

#4. When my mother comes home from the hospital with me, my older brother takes one look inside the pink blanket, says, Take her back. We already have one of those. Already

Jacqueline Woodson

#5. You could have nothing with a teenage daughter in the house, not mascara, not ankle boots, not breadknives, not sedatives; they took everything, selfish little bitches!

Marian Keyes

#6. Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

Vince Cable

#7. Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Susan Sontag

#8. One final insight about prioritizing involves getting disciplined about what you don't put on the stage. This means not thinking when you don't have to, becoming disciplined about not paying attention to non-urgent tasks unless, or until, it's truly essential that you do.

David Rock

#9. Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!

Rick Riordan