"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."

-- Paul Auster

#Sky Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine. "But youâ€™ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.â€ â€œThat sounds more like a poison than a person,â€ was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me. â€œExactly,â€ Valek replied. â€œYou have poisoned me.”

Source : Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.246, Harlequin
“If the ad is bad people get turned off. That's 125 million potential viewers, so you just killed reach. But there's also a big potential payoff. I think it does pay off because you get a lot of traffic, a lot of free public relations(in media stories). It helps position themselves for the next round of financing.”
“No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.”
“Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.”
“Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.”

Source : "Helena's Husband: An Historical Comedy".
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”

Source : "A Lover's Discourse (Talking)". Bok by Roland Barthes, 1977.
“I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.”
“I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.”

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