Quotes of: While Keyword

Ennui Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe, designing futures where nothing will occur: cross the gypsy’s palm and yawning she will still predict no perils left to conquer. Jeopardy is jejune now: naïve knight finds ogres out-of-date and ...

Sylvia Plath

If children matter, than whom more to stand in the gap than their parents; yet sadly, the parents (or a parent) can ironically become the chief enemy for which the children may hold in contempt…rather than care. Under the “abuse card”, the cust...

A Once and Always Father

We deny more than we confess. We hide more than we reveal. We assume because it makes us feel exposed if we have to ask. It's easier to say "I feel nothing" than to admit "I feel something." It takes no courage to say, "I hate you" but it takes a gre...

Donna Lynn Hope

When They Die We Change Our Minds About Them When they die we change our minds about them. While they live we see the plenty hard they’re trying,to be a star, or nice, or wise, and so we do not quite believe them. When they die, suddenly they are w...

Jennifer Michael Hecht

Oskar: Who are you? Eli: I'm like you. Oskar: What do you mean? Eli: [accusing tone] What are you staring at? Well? Eli: Are you looking at me? Eli: [points her finger at Oskar] So scream! Squeal! Eli: Those were the first words I heard you say. Oska...

Let the Right One In

If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of...

Patrick Rothfuss

Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or pro...

Tennessee Williams

Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

In the City of Shy Hunters

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Charlotte's Web

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

...nothing seemed quite as romantic as holding hands while you climaxed.

Frat Rush

While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world

The Fault in Our Stars

Get it in while you can. It'll all be gone soon enough.

God Hates Us All

While I was yearning for happiness I became happy.

Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

While taking a quick shower, ask yourself, "Ass I hope you saw that?

Black Butterfly

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

The Beach

Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith uncovers the possible.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Meditation is… a state that can best be described as deep dreamless sleep while awake.

Baby Steps to Meditation

While the Holy Spirit is hidden, He is never, ever absent

Breakfast in the temple

the secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Bodies of Water

I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.

Bared to You