Adrienna Efstathios Quotes & Sayings

Wherever and whenever that piece is put on, it is April. — Willa Cather

Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed. — Lauren Oliver

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. — Samuel Richardson

Saying that you religion is better than other religions is similar to saying that your mother is great but other mothers are characterless. — Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

Shug! I say. God wrote the bible, white folks had nothing to do with it.
How come he look just like them, then? she say. Only bigger? And a heap more hair. How come the bible just like everything else they make, all about them doing one thing and another, and all the colored folks doing is gitting cursed? (Walker 2000: 166) — Alice Walker

He had been humiliated and treated like the white trash he was. Under the bedsheet that hides the identity of every Ku Klux Klansman is a cretinous, vicious, and childlike human being whose last holdout is his whites-only restroom. — James Lee Burke

No prayer fully expresses our faith. — Oscar Romero

We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence;
we come to them to share one with someone else. — Matthew Hussey

I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine ... more like cloud ten ... cloud nine was old news. — Darren Criss

Do you not know the cause and reason of their coming?" They did not, the people replied. "They adore a certain Covetous Deity," Hatuey explained, "whose cravings are not to be satisfied by a few moderate offerings, but they may answer his Adoration and Worship, demand many unreasonable things of us, and use their utmost endeavors to subjugate and afterwards murder us. — Peter Manseau