Constance > Constance's Quotes

“She wore a cantilevered, augmented-breast-skimming satin dress the colour of egg-yolk. Somewhere in deepest Nebraska, a prom queen two sizes smaller than Selena was wondering where the fuck her outfit had disappeared to.”
― Tabitha McGowan, The Tied Man

“I didn’t know what the hell to say to that. I just gave an ungrateful sigh of exasperation and pulled the sweater over my head.
‘It’s just your colour,’ Henry enthused.
‘And you can fuck right off,’ I said.”
― Tabitha McGowan, The Tied Man

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
― Rumi

“You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.”
― Rumi

“My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was.”
― Rumi

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
― Rumi

“There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice