57 quotes found
“Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.”
“But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?”
“Sorry. But it isnt for us to change how things are. Im just an administrator. Youre just a teacher.Oh, I hope I dont teach. Because look what we did: we saved the zoo animals and the nice children ...”
“Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.”
“I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.”
“The true moments of one's life were sadder for the fact that they must always be synchronized with the ordinary: with rail timetables, with breaks in traffic.”
“There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.”
“Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.”
“Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exac...”
“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, an...”
“Mary leaned back, exhaled, and watched her smoke rise. 'What sort of man do you want anyway?'"Tall. Funny. Never came top of his class or pulled the wings off bees.""Yes, but I mean really? When al...”
“A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
“On the girls brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I a...”
“I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a sc...”
“I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself”
“I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. ”
“For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it. It is not an illness you can cure yourself of by standing up and letting the big red cinema seat fold itself up be...”
“Let them say whatever gives them comfort.”
“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stor...”
“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you notic...”
