Xanana Reading Quotes

#1. I don't know how many years it's been since I last slept with my husband. I was faithful, stupid and so awfully lonely that I'll gobble you up if you're nice to me. Or kill you because I can't bear it.

Nina George

#2. The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.

Elena Vesnina

#3. Love can remove fear and heal a broken heart, if it is allowed to enter.

Ellen J. Barrier

#4. It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

Rupert Brooke

#5. I spent so much energy on cutting and pasting together the person I wanted to be that I forgot who I was.

Maggi Myers

#6. Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. If my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine?

Osamu Dazai

#9. When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

Jill Lepore