Barangay Visitation Quotes & Sayings

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end. — Sarah Addison Allen

What the poet is searching for
is not the fundamental I
but the deep you. — Antonio Machado

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. — Trey Gowdy

Deathpoint collapsed, a bullet wound in his forehead. Dead. — Brandon Sanderson

I know Ty's not all there." Nick said, tapping his temple with a finger. "He has always been a step away from the wrong path. One screw comes loose, and he's gone. The only thing keeps him on the side of the righteous is his loyalty. His sense of purpose. You take that from him? And you're looking into the eyes of a monster. — Abigail Roux

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure. — Marjane Satrapi

In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a kind of populist communion ... At such times it is as though the still small pool of one's own identity has been overrun by a great flood, bringing its own grand collective desires and resentments, scouring out that pool so thoroughly that one no longer feels fear or sees the reflections of oneself but is carried along on that insurrectionary surge. These moments when individuals find others who share their dreams, when fear is overwhelmed by idealism or by outrage, when people feel a strength that surprises them, are moments in which they become heroes - for what are heroes but those so motivated by ideals that fear cannot sway them, those who speak for us, those who have power for good? A person who never feels it is condemned to cynicism and isolation. In those moments everyone becomes a visionary, everyone becomes a hero. — Rebecca Solnit

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. — Don DeLillo

It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets. — Michael Caine

You had to hand it to her: she was as cool as dammit. — Donna Tartt

Realize that your gift does not only belong to you — Sunday Adelaja

I want every character be an outsider in some way. — Josh Schwartz

For a different woman, a different relationship, a different situation, gentleness might have been the proper, the only approach - but not for this woman, in these circumstances. The only thing that will cleanse Claire (and reassure her: look at what she says at the end of it. She feels safe again, having felt the power and violence in him) is violence. And - the most important point here - Jamie pays attention to what she wants, rather than proceeding with his own notion of how it should be, even though it's a sensible notion and the one most people would have. — Diana Gabaldon