302 quotes found
“No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”
“How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?”
“Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words to father have such a different meaning from the words to mother.”
“There are certain things we owe our little sisters.”
“He cant ground her if hes already killed her, I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. Well, he can, but it wouldnt have the same impact.”
“I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird.”
“The first two tracks were pop songs from the 1970s, sung in Danish in a style that was best described as Abba without joy.”
“Wow, that is so deep.'He meant it, of course.'You're really real,' he added breathily. 'Say something else.'I decided he wasn't worth punching, and walked away.”
“In 1789 the French rebelled and found an emperor. The Americans found their freedom from the British and enslaved the Africans. The Arab Spring bloomed and the military and the jihadists seized pow...”
“He'd solved the problem you seeand that's the way some people are. They are ceaselessly finding ways of getting to grips with the world, of surmounting certain antipathies so as to apply themselves...”
“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
“He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.”
“It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters o...”
“When you speak, your words echo across the room. When you write, your words echo across the ages" Bud GardnerThis is what my books do about stories of the Past, Present and Futur. Enjoy!Visit my pa...”
“You must choose the life you live at the time you live it.”
“Toni Morrison said that if you can't find the book you want to read, write it. So I did! It's high time to give our heroines a different kind of happy ending.”
“I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.”
“I had discovered something; there was a pleasure in becoming something new. You could will yourself into a fresh shape. Now all I had to do was figure out how to do it out there, in my life.”
“Work with what you have. Look good, feel good.”
“We are born into a world that is much bigger than ourselves, one that is both enormously frightening and enormously beautiful. Although we walk the path of our individual lives alone we are always ...”
