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“Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.”
Source : Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
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“My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.”
Source : William T. Vollmann (2009). “Riding Toward Everywhere”, p.1, Harper Collins
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“exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.”
Source : Edward W. Said (2013). “Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays”, p.212, Granta Books
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“I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.”
Source : Carolyn Mackler (2012). “Guyaholic”, p.91, Candlewick Press
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“There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.”
Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
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“You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to do with politics than with theology. I'm disappointed that clergy would be leading such a divisive call.”
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“I don't really need bulk, just strength. I can get strong without putting on weight.”
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“The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.”
