Gurusum Weekly

You will reap what you will sow.

After a storm (comes) fair weather, after sorrow (comes) joy.

Those who hunt deer sometimes raise tigers.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

O what their joy and glory must be, Those endless Sabbaths the blessed ones see! - Peter Abelard 1079-1142

“Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it."  Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"  "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it."  "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.”  ―  Cassandra Clare

“I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.”  ―  Sarah Dessen

“No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.”  ―  Sarah Dessen

“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”  ―  Veronica Roth

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”  ―  Ambrose Bierce

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”  ―  Marilyn Monroe

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”  ―  Maya Angelou

“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”  ―  Jodi Picoult

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted”  ―  Charles Bukowski

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”  ―  Dorothy Parker

“Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.”  ―  Cassandra Clare

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”  ―  Hermann Hesse

“I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstaces are. If you die, and I live, there's no life for me at all back in District Twelve. You're my whole life." Peeta says. "I would never be happy again. It's different for you. I'm not saying it wouldn't be hard. But there are other people who'd make your life worth living." "No one really needs me," he says, and there's no selfpity in his voice. It's true his family doesn't need him. They will mourn him, as will a handfull of friends. But they will get on.... I realise only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me. "I do," I say. "I need you.”  ―  Suzanne Collins

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”  ―  Arthur Miller

“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”  ―  John Green