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Maybe God gets nervous in places like this, the way I feel in restaurants with linen napkins, because if he does exist, I don't feel him here. — Marie-Helene Bertino

You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices. — Helene Cardona

Faith is believing in something even without proof, because you know it in your heart to be true. — Helene Wecker

Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is "nothing. — Joan Didion

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing. — Helene Cixous

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me. — Helene Cixous

Power belongs to the smallest and to the dead. — Helene Cixous

She is officiating the marriage of two bottles of ketchup; overturning one and balancing it on the mouth of the other so it can empty its shit. The — Marie-Helene Bertino

If the act of love is so dangerous, why do people risk so much for it? — Helene Wecker

You can go on losing after loss. — Helene Cixous

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.
And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep. — Helene Cixous

They hurt me, these small, brutal kindnesses. — Marie-Helene Bertino

Judge a man by his actions, not his thoughts. — Helene Wecker

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. — Helene Cixous

Whatever is contained must be released. — Helene Aylon

Other-Love is writing's first name. — Helene Cixous

I think I love you, Bennett. Probably not relevant at the moment so no need to say thanks. — Helene Young

I houseclean my books every spring and throw out those I'm never going to read again like I throw out clothes I'm never going to wear again. — Helene Hanff

If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through. — Helene Cixous

I've been sitting on the edge of the bed for an hour in a complete daze. I told him if I die tonight I'll die happy, it's all here, everything's here. — Helene Hanff

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London. — Helene Hanff

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? — Helene Hanff

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation. — Helene D. Gayle

In the synagogue of my heart ...
I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked — Helene Cixous

This whole book is composed of first pages. — Helene Cixous

It is essential to exchange the invisible ring for all that we call survival, survive, survivor. — Helene Cixous

I love him to death, there's an Edwardian finishing touch to everything he does. — Helene Hanff

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. — Helene Cixous

The author is not only the one who signs but also a completely unknown person blended with (legendary,] mythical, complex, variable consanguinity. — Helene Cixous

A true solitude is not unbearable since it allows for otherness. — Helene Cixous

The ultimate aim is reverence for the universe.
The ultimate aim is love for life.
The ultimate aim is harmony within oneself. — Helene Cardona

Beauty will no longer be forbidden. — Helene Cixous

The gods are made of marble
Deep inside a museum
A quadruped monster beckons me to approach
("Outcries") — Helene Baronne D'Oettingen

I did not even know this existed ... this world, I did not know. I thought it existed only in one's head, and in dreams ... And now: here I am. — Helene Cixous

In dreaming
we travel to a place where all is forgiven. — Helene Cardona

Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away. — Helene Cixous

Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time - that's permanent. — Sabaa Tahir

It is not other people who inflict the worst disappointments, but the shock between reality and the extravagance of our imagination. — Helene Gremillon

The more I anoint the more my mind adheres physically to the mysterious fabric of love.
I am decutie. Worn thin. You know that word? — Helene Cixous

All I can do now is cover the mirrors ... — Helene Aylon

Now as then, he sensed the threads of his life scattering and rearranging before this new and overwhelming thing that had landed among them. — Helene Wecker

So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or sun. I explore I bring to light. — Helene Cixous

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff

We are consciousness wanting to expand. — Helene Cardona

I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin. — Helene Cardona

If I didn't sleep," Arbeely mused, "I think I'd miss the dreams. — Helene Wecker

I'm really, really tired of the past — Helene Dunbar

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution. — Helene Hanff

The air was a malodorous broth, and all labored to inhale it. The — Helene Wecker

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us. — Helene Cixous

If there were a race among all artists to the human heart, my money would be on music to win. It knows a shortcut. — Marie-Helene Bertino

Sayeed was a quiet man - not awkward, as Arbeely could be, but possessed of a calm and steady nature that complemented his wife's heartfelt vivacity. — Helene Wecker

They will never forgive us for this Somewhere Else. — Helene Cixous

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart. — Helene Hanff

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life. — Helene Hanff

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members. — Helene D. Gayle

All my life I've wanted to see London. [ ... ] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die. — Helene Hanff

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression. — Helene Deutsch

There you are," the man said. A small plate and a fork were in his hands. Irritated, the Jinni said, "Yes, here I am, enjoying a moment of solitude. — Helene Wecker

I am not a lucky person, but I am a person blessed by God for what I have and I got. — Helene Koloway

It was gratifying, to hear that rare laugh. He felt as though he'd earned it. — Helene Wecker

It is said that life and death are under the power of language. — Helene Cixous

If you are anything other than humbled in the presence of love, you are not in the presence of love. — Marie-Helene Bertino

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way. — Helene Cixous

I become ocean, mercury, silver
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated. — Helene Cardona

Snakes, he learned, dreamed in smells and vibrations, their tongues darting out to sample the air, their long bodies pressed close to the dirt. — Helene Wecker

They'd need no reason!" shouted Arbeely. "Why can't you understand? Men need no reason to cause mischief, only an excuse! — Helene Wecker

America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces. — Zoe Helene

I think I'd miss the dreams.
Wecker, Helene (2013-04-23). The Golem and the Jinni (P.S.) (p. 59). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. — Helene Wecker

He had always listened to the music of a more sensitive man. She had let several relationship cruelties slide because of it. — Marie-Helene Bertino

Laia is the wild dance of a Tribal campfire, while Helene is the cold blue of an alchemist's flame. — Sabaa Tahir

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. — Helene Cixous

Helene, I will take your struggle away. I will bring you back to life. — Kitty Thomas

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn't-eat. — Helene Cixous

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children. — Helene D. Gayle

On the wall of time to come
a window appears.
I open it, let angels in. — Helene Cardona

The knife to heart is always a surprise;
it isn't the fashion to name evil
or forever bind a liar to their lies. — Talie Helene

Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment. — Helene Cixous

The human body is like a piece of fabric. No matter how well one cares for it, it frays as it ages. — Helene Wecker

There are so many kinds of reality, and so many secret openings in the walls we think are mute. — Helene Cixous

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence. — Helene Deutsch

Helene Huntington Smith, "Profile," New Yorker, April 5, 1930. — Joseph P. Lash

The insanity of love, and that's why you're trying to drive away with the park brake on. — Helene Young

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. — Helene Cixous

Good morning, the city says. Fuck you. — Marie-Helene Bertino

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species. — Helene D. Gayle

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business. — Helene D. Gayle

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person. — Julia Child

This cocktail may be virgin, but you won't be after drinking it. Schisandra is a superberry, an adaptogen and ... an aphrodisiac. — Zoe Helene

On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops. — Helene Wecker

Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder — Helene Munson

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand. — Zoe Helene

And if there was little honor in thieving from a thief, he imagined he would feel little shame in it, either. — Helene Wecker

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity. — Helene Deutsch

Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us. — Helene Cixous

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. — Helene Deutsch

His work was more of an education than a classroom could ever offer. — Helene Wecker

Nonviolence is the very essence of the gospels. — Helene Iswolsky