Ashiya Quotes & Sayings

The reason I'm keeping her secret for her, pretending that I don't know she's a girl is because I don't want to lose her. And that's exactly why I can't let her know that I know. — Hisaya Nakajo

Everything was heightened the way it always is when summer is slipping away to fall, and you're younger than eighteen, and all you can do is suck your cherry Icee and let the chlorine sting your nose, all the way up into the pockets behind your eyes, and snap your towel at the pretty girl with the sunburn, and hope to do it all again come June. — Emily M. Danforth

I don't care whether you're a guy or a girl. I'll always like you. — Hisaya Nakajo

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. — Sol LeWitt

It's hard to think of you as a Margaret. Maizy suits you."
"I doubt I'd answer to anything else." Maizy smiled as she adjusted the cloth. — Mary Connealy

He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust - dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight. — Gustave Flaubert

Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. — Chuck Palahniuk

I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper. — Karl Lagerfeld

We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves. — Brigham Young

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. — Anna Lindh

Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning? — Laozi

Since the day I first met you, you've given me so many precious things. If I hadn't met you, I would never have become the person I am today. — Hisaya Nakajo

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other. — Lynn Shelton

Around him the chorus had begun, great swarms of creatures that he guessed to be insects, frogs maybe, everything else in this infernal country that had a voice. Why night? he thought. They don't say a thing all day long. The sun goes down and they have some kind of contest to see who can croak and buzz the loudest. Just to keep us awake, I guess. Revenge for slapping at them all day, killing their cousins. — Jeff Shaara

'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers. — Patrick DeWitt