Beachcroft Ashley Quotes & Sayings

Hunger was constitutional with him,
women, cigarettes, liquor, need need need
until he went to pieces.
The pieces sat up & wrote. They did not heed
their piecedom but kept very quietly on
among the chaos. — John Berryman

The natural desire to save a cat is what it means to be a citizen. — Ai Weiwei

Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere. — Toby Turner

Luisa pointed up at the crucifix on the wall and asked, 'Do you believe in all that?' 'I would like to,' he replied, 'but it is too difficult.' She nodded in agreement and said, 'If the person hanging on it were a woman, then I would believe it. — Louis De Bernieres

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical. — Heidi Julavits

The hero, the villain, or modern tragic character. A modern Achilles who inflicts his own arrow. "The Wings of the Seraph — Jeffrey LeBlanc

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them. — Beverly Cleary