
Top 19 Shura Quotes
#1. I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.
Paullina Simons
#2. Shura ... are you ... in love with me?"
"Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry me.
Paullina Simons
#3. Just a breath ago, an eighteen-year-old nurse was bending over Rebecca's father's father, a wounded soldier in a Soviet hospital, saying, yes, Shura, we are going to have a baby.
Paullina Simons
#4. When I was in Colditz, that impenetrable fortress, whittling away my life, I wanted to know this."
"Looks like you're still there, Shura."
"No," he said. "I'm in New York, a fly on the wall, trying to see you without me.
Paullina Simons
#5. Shura, I'm yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.
Paullina Simons
#6. He hugged her. "Be strong for me, Tatiana," Alexander said hoarsely. "Save yourself for me." "That's what I do, Shura," Tatiana said. "I save myself for you." Alexander bent to her, but she couldn't even look up. He kissed the top of her hat. They held on for a few more seconds.
Paullina Simons
#7. Shura," she whispered. "I'm going to have a baby."
At first she didn't think Alexander heard her, he was mute so long. "You what?" he said in horror.
"I'm going to have a baby," she mouthed, her shoulders quaking, her swollen lips quivering.
Paullina Simons
#8. Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
Gloria Naylor
#9. There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
Elbert Hubbard
#10. Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude ...
William Butler Yeats
#11. Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.
Dinesh D'Souza
#12. No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.
Carol Bly
#13. Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger in the dyke but with his whole frame spreadeagled on a board swept along by the surf of history.
Joseph Kerman
#14. What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?
Lila Abu-Lughod
#15. Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.
Luis Gonzalez
#16. Each species is a masterpiece of evolution that humanity could not possibly duplicate even if we somehow accomplish the creation of new organisms by genetic engineering. - E. O. Wilson
Jerry A. Coyne
#17. So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn't really make it
Kamila Shamsie
#19. Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
Frank Zappa
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