Belva Davis

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

There is nothing ever wrong with ability, ambition, achievement; but they can easily be wronged by being used to bad ends.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.