Astride Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms. — Lidia Yuknavitch

When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again." — Hamilton Leithauser

There was a nodding of heads in the kitchen, and only Tom sat rocklike and brooding.
"Tom, wouldn't you be willing to take over the ranch?" George asked.
"Oh, that's nothing," said Tom. "It's no trouble to run the ranch because the ranch doesn't run
never has."
"Then why don't you agree?"
"I'd find a reluctance to insult my father," Tom said. "He'd know."
"But where's the harm in suggesting it?"
Tom rubbed his ears until he forced the blood out of them and for a moment they were white. "I don't forbid you," he said. "But I can't do it."
George said, "We could write it in a letter - a kind of invitation, full of jokes. And when he got tired of one of us, why, he could go to another. There's years of visiting among the lot of us." And that was how they left it. — John Steinbeck

I would never touch anyone else again without thinking about her. — Katie McGarry

The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course. — Leon Brown

It's a big world, isn't it?' said Georgie. 'Do you think they hate each other on other planets too? — John Boyne

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie. — Ruskin Bond

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education. — Jill Vialet

I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona. — Kevin Keegan

Entertainment is such a non-reality. — Katharine McPhee

The stick-thin thing, I'm kind of just like, 'Not gonna do it' and 'I couldn't.' — Jordin Sparks