Reta Traister > Reta's Quotes

“Evil humans were afoot.”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle, Westwind Secrets

“Love wins… If we let it”
― Daniel Mangena

“I’ve failed with my magic,” I say with hands in fists. “Again!”
“The palace is still standing. You sure it was a failure?”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“Growth happens in many ways, but a primary way is by giving your team authority equal to their responsibilities. This allows them to learn how to win by giving them the right to lose and, as a result, to learn from the experience”
― Andrew Wyatt, Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact

“But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Josh bear-hugs St Clair. "I'm sorry you're off the market."

"Don't tell Anna, but I bought one for you, too," St Clair says.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.”
― Christine M Knight, Life Song

“Always have a 'Plan C”
― Zoltan Andrejkovics, The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team

“Until the August 1 story about the Dahlberg check, the working relationship between Bernstein and Woodward was more competitive than anything else. Each had worried that the other might walk off with the remainder of the story by himself. If one had gone chasing after a lead at night or on a weekend, the other felt compelled to do the same.

-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward”
― Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men

“About halfway back to the fraternity house, they suddenly became aware of bright lights behind them. The two turned automatically. To their horror, a car had raced up over the curb and was heading directly at them!”
― Carolyn Keene, Nancy's Mysterious Letter

“Yes, facts don't mean a thing, do they? What you want to believe, that's the only truth!”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

“Sé que mi familia es así pero este silencio me pesa. Tengo la impresión de tener millones de cosas que decir que, en el fondo, no interesan a nadie. Me viene a la memoria lo que decían los supervivientes de los campos de la última guerra al volver a su hogar: las pesadillas no se cuentan. Los demás no imaginan este género de pesadillas. Se instala, entre ellos y nosotras, una especie de statu quo que parece decir: ‘Estás aquí, se acabó, no hablemos más de ello.”
― Betty Mahmoody, For the Love of a Child

“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
― Pablo Neruda

“The world is big but it is comprehensible," says R. Buckminster Fuller. But it seems to me that the world is not nearly big enough and that any portion of its surface, left unpaved and alive, is infinitely rich in details and relationships, in wonder, beauty, mystery comprehensible only in part. The very existence of existence is itself suggestive of the unknown - not a problem, but a mystery. We will never get to the bottom of it, never know the whole of even so small and trivial and useless and precious a place as Aravaipa. Therein lies our redemption.”
― Edward Abbey, The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“We’re all under the streetlamps, everyone’s the color of day-old piss. When I’m fifty, this is how I’ll remember my friends: tired and yellow and drunk.”
― Junot Díaz, Drown

“Steve had just met the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Until now his engagement to Christine had never been a concern.”
― Stephen Douglass, Kerri's War

“And you never fall behind?”
“Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I’m speaking,” he added, with a boyish grin.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

“Think about it mate – the 'Long Gun'. That's a ladyboy bar.”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“You cannot!' Tatiana said sharply. 'If you order a gun there is only a single shot, and once delivered the doors are locked and will not open until it has been fired.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
“I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
“But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“Бяха деца на такова време и такава култура, която се отнасяше с недоверие към любовта, влюбването, романтичната любов, романтиката изобщо, и въпреки това, сякаш за да си отмъсти, не спираше да бълва сексуален език, словесна сексуалност, анализ, дисекция, деконструктивизъм, оголване. Теоретично бяха добре подковани, защото знаеха за фалокрацията и завистта към пениса, за пунктуацията, пункцията и проникването, полиморфната и полисемантичната перверзия, за оралността, за добрите и лошите гърди, за подуването на клитора, за преследването на мехурчета, за флуидите, твърдите тела и метафорите за тях, за системите за желание и щета, за инфанилната лакомия, потискането и трансгресията, за иконографията на шийката на матката и образността на разширяващото се и свиващо се Тяло - желано, нападано, поглъщано, всяващо страх.
Не говореха. Докосваха се, без да го споменават и без да предприемат следваща стъпка. Длан върху длан, облечено рамо, прислонено към друго рамо. Глезен върху глезен на плажа, където никой не отместваше крак.
Една вечер заспаха заедно на леглото на Мод, където си поделиха чаша “Калвадос”. Той се сви на топка зад гърба й, черна запетайка до елегантната й бяла фраза.”
― A.S. Byatt

“Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

“Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

“Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“The narrative unfolding on television looked nothing like the killers’ plan. It looked only moderately like what was actually occurring. It would take months for investigators to piece together what had gone on inside. Motive would take longer to unravel. It would be years before the detective team would explain why. The public couldn’t wait that long. The media was not about to. They speculated.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

“Deliverance is not scary—it is the most beautiful, loving act of Jesus. It is the moment someone finally walks into the freedom that was always meant for them.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression