Quotes by Sweet There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time. Anne Lamott comeback down-and sweet When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice. Anne Michaels gratitude sweet book In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume. Anne Rice home spring sweet And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus. Anne Rice strong sweet men Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun Anne Rice rising sweet thinking Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest. Anne Rice vampire wings sweet How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet. Anne Rice insipid shameful sweet I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston. Anne Rivers Siddons cities sweet thinking How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them. Anne Roiphe daughter mother sweet Loving me with my shoes off Anne Sexton sweet mean children Oh sharp diamond, my mother! Anne Sexton girl mother sweet He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough. Annette Curtis Klause kissing sweet blood There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life. Annie Dillard good-life reading sweet Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one? Annie Proulx eye heart sweet He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands. Annie Proulx real sweet memories I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones. Anthony Bourdain snacks meals sweet If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets. Anthony Bourdain cutting animal sweet But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal. Anthony Burgess stars brother sweet For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love. Anthony Capella regret coffee sweet The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit. Anthony of Padua catholic humility sweet «56789101112131415»
