Alphonsine Robidoux Quotes & Sayings

In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing. — Hector Tobar

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood. — Sebastian Barry

Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror of another's story, we can discover our tragedy and our comedy-and therefore our very human-ness, the ambiguity and incongruity, that lie at the core of the human condition. — Ernest Kurtz

It brings a lump into the throat to see how they go over, and run and fall. A man would like to spank them, they are so stupid, and to take them by the arm and lead them away from here where they have no business to be. They wear grey coats and trousers and boots, but for most of them the uniform is far too big, it hangs on their limbs, their shoulders are too narrow, their bodies too slight; no uniform was ever made to these childish measurements. — Erich Maria Remarque

Everybody counts, or nobody counts. — Michael Connelly

Cicadas sang madly from the trees. It was so impossibly summer. — Maggie Stiefvater

I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they're a lot more comfortable to wear - Sometimes I completely forget I've got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them. — Jennifer Garner

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining. — Noam Chomsky

Did you know that you can live on Ensure for a year? A person can live for a really long time just lying in bed and drinking Ensure - way longer than you think. — Roz Chast