257 quotes found
“If you think my waistline defines my worth, you are not worth my time anyways.”
“I am all things, I am not your words. I am defined by me.”
“But one afternoon Lila said softly that there was nothing that could eliminate the conflict between the rich and the poor. "Why?""Those who are on the bottom always want to be on top, those who are...”
“Dont be timid. Youre a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your ar...”
“People whose eyes shine are happy to be alive. They see life and its glory even when things arent easy.And because they see life, even through all the problems and obstacles, their eyes shine.”
“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.”
“I didnt realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didnt like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didnt want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined ...”
“You really work in those conditions?She, irritated by the contact, pulled her arm away, protesting: And how do you work, the two of you, how do you work?They didnt answer. They worked hard, that wa...”
“She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasnt afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.”
“Youre really a good girl, poor you.”
“This is new. Old Quinn would not have worn a skirt on her first day of sophomore year. Old Quinn would have worn a pair of jeans (hole in the knee? even better) and a t-shirt advertising the Provid...”
“Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.”
“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones”
“Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.”
“Perhaps Lila was right: my bookeven though it was having so much successreally was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadnt been ...”
“Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. Its a good sentence, shell like it.”
“I wish to offer the world more than just beauty and plastic moments. I wish to offer the world depth, conversation, poetry and wisdom. I hope you do not deny me when I open these doors.”
“She tasted sweet, like oranges, liquid sunshine in my mouth as we kissed, our tongues playing together.”
“The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise ou...”
“Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.”
