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Keeping Quotes (page 78)

Anita Loos quote: "Fate keeps happening."
Fate keeps happening. Anita Loos
She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing... Walter Pater
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. Bell Hooks
Sophocles quote: "Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or..."
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. Sophocles
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded Paulo Coelho
Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change? Frank O'Hara
Hey, do you know what you call a blond with a brain?" I asked, and the continued on the same breath, "a golden retriever."I've heard that one, too," she said, no longer smiling. I'll keep trying." I promised. Stephenie Meyer
Azar Nafisi quote: "I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really..."
I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. Azar Nafisi
When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together. Haruki Murakami
They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running. Anne Tyler
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a..."
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. Ernest Hemingway
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one. Jodi Picoult
A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're notthat good at it. Keep going through the things that you liketo do, until you find something that you actually seem to beextremely good at. It can be anything. George Lucas
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” Hoshino looked up, mouth half open, and gazed at her face. “What’s that?” “Henri Bergson,” she replied, licking the semen from the tip of his penis. [...] “I can’t think of anything special, but could you quote some more of that philosophy stuff? I don’t know why, but it might keep me from coming so quick. Otherwise I’ll lose it pretty fast. Haruki Murakami
I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother. Amy Tan

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