"Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes."

-- Blaise Cendrars

#Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes #Light Quotes

“You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT”

Source : Rachel Renée Russell (2010). “Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I donâ€™t think itâ€™s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”
“Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict.”
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
“My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind”
“Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.”
“Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.”

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