Wakeable Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, I thought I was Wonder Woman.

Carolyn Murphy

#2. Behind the cloud the starlight lurks,
Through showers the sunbeams fall;
For God, who loveth all His works,
Has left His hope with all!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#3. Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

Damien Hirst

#4. I don't have a cherubic bone in my body."
"Maybe you've got your bone in someone else's cherubic body then?

Jane Washington

#5. Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Elizabeth Bowen

#6. How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

Frank Shorter

#7. Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

Robert Holden

#8. I wonder how many loose buttons there are in this world, just rolling around in a jar without a mate or a blouse to go on. No purpose. Just siting there unnoticed. Forgotten.

Sarah Ockler

#9. I got up and let Pearl in. She dashed into the room, jumped on the bed, turned around about twelve times, and plumped down hard against Susan, in the spot that until recently had been occupied by me.

Robert B. Parker

#10. Seek comfort in the warmth of the morality of your choosing. Not in the depravity and fear of lost causes, in which you should turn away, before it sees you, as well.

- Plight, 2015

Don Swann II

#11. Healing is about making the choice to focus your thoughts on what feels energetically better at the level of your heart.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#12. Rules you can bend give you nothing to lean on.

Rachel Seiffert

#13. Wilhelmina swooned. The Dowager was stunned. Andrew punched Nathaniel again. "I should call you out!" He shouted over Nathaniel's prone form. Elinor fled the room.

Elizabeth Johns