Stokoe Quotes

#1. Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before.

Harriet Evans

#3. RELIGION IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE MESSY BUSINESS OF HUMANITY.

Ken Wilson

#4. Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don't feel like reading anymore.

Khadija Rupa

#5. Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value of the life appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for the life that matters.

Judith Butler

#6. The best revenge is to improve yourself.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#7. Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!

H. L. Richardson

#8. I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

Sharni Vinson

#9. I slept and the night rolled over into day like a dog. Another post-meridian awakening - sunshine on empty bottles, tangled clothes. I dozed while the temperature rose.

Matthew Stokoe

#10. Marvellous blossomed, having quite forgotten what an exciting and necessary jolt being needed gave.

Sarah Winman

#11. I'd done it, I'd crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the Escape commercials. It had been dirty and nasty but I wanted more.

Matthew Stokoe

#12. Oh come on. He's not gonna survive 17 bullet wounds, is he? (Spoiler Alert: He does.)

John Green

#13. He was adrift in their world, unsure of his significance, and to open himself to a point where conversation could take place would only have revealed how unlike them he was. Cripps

Matthew Stokoe