90 quotes found
“The realization that my grandmother, mother and I are one in the same awakens something mysterious inside of me. The person I am, someone I believe has more opportunities than my mom and grandmothe...”
“As women were taught to believe that the more physically appealing we look, the more love well receive in return. If we can just be the perfect cook, cleaner, lover, CEO hottie well heck, if you d...”
“Look at the lonely fisherman,' my father says.'Look at his view,' my mother says.”
“All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)”
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.”
“For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for home. We are all waiting for a form of transport, a ship, a saucer to carry us out ...”
“This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.”
“Feedback control is certainly not controlled feedback.”
“Like hunting for a dead beloved's face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.”
“Sitti knows that modern-day wars are fought over simple things, like the length and fit of a shirtthe shorter the sleeve, the greater the misfortune. Many times she wants to ask the one-hundred-yea...”
“One of his greatest talents was empathy”
“I asked the boy who wept what it felt like, crystal meth, the prettiest name for a drug besides heroin. Crystal methamphetamine. His head fell back. He closed his eyes, then opened them. 'Come on, ...”
“Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of the world above, it was as if we were underwater.”
“There is no gain without an effort, some gain with lots of effort and wonderful gain with smart effort.”
“Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper.”
“I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain ...”
“I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an o...”
“I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.”
“My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a blue shift. An anomaly. A collision. In the end, I understand, it is only for this we live. All ...”
“I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.”
