Studies Weekly Quotes

#1. It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

Meg Rosoff

#2. Don't use "below-the-belt" tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeling, analyzing, preaching, moralizing, ordering, warning, interrogating, ridiculing, and lecturing. Don't put the other person down.

Harriet Lerner

#3. For a long time, she wept, not so much for him and not at all for herself, but for the condition of all things and for the way the world could be but is not.

Dean Koontz

#4. I realize then, what my mother already knows - has known for a long time. Motherhood is a procession of goodbyes. Some bittersweet and filled with promise and hope, some gradual, a gentle prying away of your fingers from something precious, some more violent, unexpected.

Heather Gudenkauf

#5. I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#6. It eat my brain?" I ask. He looks confused. "No." "Mind control?" I ask. "I wish.

Amy A. Bartol

#7. If I was to die here, on this beach, I wanted to have them closed anyway. I wanted a blank canvas upon which I could paint my most treasured memories of Caleb.

Bella Forrest

#8. Put the ballast of biblical truth
in the belly of our little boats,
lest the crashing waves of calamity
of these changing times
cause us to capsize in the sea of trouble

John Piper