Life Quote by George Eliot

“It’s an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its attention to…

— Robin Hobb

“Here was the Russia she'd loved since childhood, the dark, violent, passionate place where the life of the mind and spirit were as real…

— Natalie Standiford

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

“Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“She's a gypsy girl living in a materialistic world, Unattached to most things but in love with life itself.”

— Nikki Rowe

“What is the sign of the person residing in his own Self as Pure Soul? Vitaragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments]!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“It becomes more and more difficult to credit Lisa with being a quarter Russian. Somewhere and within and behind this quintessentially middle-class middle- England…

— Penelope Lively

“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”

— Jacob Nordby

“She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to…

— Rett MacPherson

“Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women who went…

— Melody Lee

“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…”

— Tennessee Williams

“Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home…

— Ellen Meloy