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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 silencedrawn 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
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
If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
— Helene Cixous
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
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
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
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 nothingnessa 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
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
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
I am not a lucky person, but I am a person blessed by God for what I have and I got.
— Helene Koloway
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
I become ocean, mercury, silvershimmers, 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
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
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
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
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
Nonviolence is the very essence of the gospels.
— Helene Iswolsky