“ There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy… Oscar Wilde
“ Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity? Oscar Wilde
“ And so, what of it all? What of me and my passions and personas, my great loves and failures of love, my writing, my politics? What of the clanging opinions, the endless queries as to the whys and whe… Elizabeth Berg
“ I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I’d be if I’d have gone forward in… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ...I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it. Coco J. Ginger
“ Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions. Michael R. French
“ Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing. Cameron Conaway
“ If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will alw… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I know you are un… Meg Rosoff
