If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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Sue Monk Kidd
...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that they would not much take with common and vulgar capacities, nor be very acceptable to the singular and excellent sort of men; the first would not...
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Michel De Montaigne
Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.
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Criss Jami
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
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Carol Shields
You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.
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Frank Herbert
More Quotes By Bianca Scardoni
This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.
Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.
Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.
I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....
Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.
