Altaneras Quotes & Sayings

And then beyond them, farther north, were the whites, in a dreamland accessible only by the Chicago L, and even at that a place you glimpsed momentarily - redbrick houses, wrought-iron fences, tree-lined streets - then left, swallowed by the subway if you were on the Douglas-Park B, or forced to watch it all fade from view if you rode the elevated Ravenswood A. — Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski

That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don't meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn't be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read. — Roxane Gay

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself. — Tariq Ramadan

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I would take it to heart if people were mad about something my character did. — Lucy Hale