Blind Willow Sleeping Woman Quotes & Sayings

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win. — Simon Sinek

Margo," he says into my hair. "I'll save you, if you save me. — Tarryn Fisher

And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it. — Tess Gerritsen

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture ... — Gene Stratton-Porter

If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. ( ... ) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is watching Murakami come at his obsessions from so many different angles. There's a panoply of strangeness between these covers ( ... ) This collection shows Murakami at his dynamic, organic best. As a chronicler of contemporary alienation, a writer for the Radiohead age, he shows how taut and thin our routines have become, how ill-equipped we are to contend with the forces that threaten to disrupt us. — Antoine Wilson

Alright, then, where do the lost names go? The probability of their surviving in the maze of a city must be extremely low. — Haruki Murakami

She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was. — Virginia Woolf

My reflection in the mirror wasn't me. It looked like exactly like me on the outside, but it definitely wasn't me. No, that's not it. It was me, of course, but another me. Another me that never should have been. — Haruki Murakami

I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied. — Manuel Puig

You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your marriage couch. Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places. And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes, my bosom and my shame. — James Joyce

If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes. — Judith Stone