Anna Nina Quotes & Sayings

People talk as if grief were just a feeling
as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them. — C.S. Lewis

What's life worth if you can't have some fun? — Kate Atkinson

Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The harder you try to be good, the more you're starving to be bad. Not — Penelope Ward

She dragged me across the floor, stopping from time to time only to kick me. I didn't know our cows too could be so inhuman. — Samuel Beckett

American culture is no longer created by the people ... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded. — Kalle Lasn

Perdu wanted Anna to feel that she was in a nest. He wanted her to sense the boundless possibilities offered by books. They would always be enough. They would never stop loving their readers. They were a fixed point in an otherwise unpredictable world. In life. In love. After death. — Nina George

Failure is like flu. It can happen to anyone. Just as it is difficult to find a person who hasn't had the flu, it is difficult to find someone who has not been stuck by failure at some time. — Anup Kochhar

Anna worked in television advertising, she told him.

In a studio with guys past their sell-by date, who mistake women for a cross between an espresso machine and a sofa. — Nina George