Blankenhorn Obituary Quotes & Sayings

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues. — Robert Boswell

To show how memory changes to fit our story, psychologists study how memories evolve over time: if your memories of the same people change, becoming positive or negative spending on what is happening in your life now, then it's all about you, not them. This process happens so gradually that it can be a jolt to realize you ever felt differently. — Carol Tavris

It's an artist's job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors. — Neil Gaiman

Death is a certainty, an inevitable realization, the only thing that we know will befall us. There are no exceptions, no surprises: all paths lead to it. Everything we do is a preparation for it, a preparation that we begin at birth, whimpering with our foreheads against the ground. We never move farther away from death, only closer. But if it is a certainty, then why are we surprised when it comes? If this life is a short passage that lasts only an hour or a day, then why do we fight to prolong it one more day or hour? Worldly life is treacherous, eternity is better.3 — Mesa Selimovic

It's not goodbye, Sam. It's see you in two days. I promise ... " she said stroking his hair away from his dimpled cheek.
"I'm counting on it. You will be missed," he said as he put her hand on his chest near his heart. "You will be missed right here ... — Rachel Hanna

The best find hadn't been in the bunker, though. The garage had a half-dozen unused but well-maintained bicycles, complete with saddlebags. Even — James S.A. Corey

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. — Vladimir Nabokov

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. — Tom Allen

Pride ruined the angels,
Their shame them restores;
And the joy that is sweetest
Lurks in stings of remorse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino. — Jessica Sanchez

For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day. — Geoffrey Chaucer

If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff, — Ronald Breslow