Alcantarea Quotes & Sayings

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life. — Ben Fountain

Dread = Uncontrollability + Unfamiliarity + Imaginability + Suffering + Scale of Destruction + Unfairness — Amanda Ripley

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today. — Nick Blaemire

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply. — May Sarton

By seizing every opportunity for kindness, forgiveness, healing, and love that crosses my path each day, I hope that my death, although perhaps sad for some, will be gracefully concluded. — Lisa J. Shultz

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere ... including in branches of the U.S. government. — Sherry Morris

Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have a map it will still be there because a map is a representation of things that actually exist so you can find the protractor or the biscuits again. And a timetable is a map of time, except that if you don't have a timetable, time isn't there like the landing and the garden and the route to school. — Mark Haddon

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy. — Bill Drayton

As I make goals for this year ... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will. — Lysa TerKeurst

I love her," he rasped, his eyes on Danny. "You want me to beg, I'll fuckin' beg. I'll do whatever I gotta do if it means she keeps breathin'. — Madeline Sheehan

[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant. — G.H. Hardy

Goddamn Homer and his idiotic story of the Sirens' song. — S.J. Harper

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. — Sherman Alexie

That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements. — Jess Row