Branowen Quotes & Sayings

The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. — Jon Stewart

When I was a teenager in Boston, a man on the subway handed me a card printed with tiny pictures of hands spelling out the alphabet in sign language. I AM DEAF, said the card. You were supposed to give the man some money in exchange.
I have thought of that card ever since, during difficult times, mine or someone else's; surely when tragedy has struck you dumb, you should be given a stack of cards that explain it for you. When Pudding died, I wanted my stack. I still want it. My first child was stillborn, it would say on the front. It remains the hardest thing for me to explain, even now, or maybe I mean especially now - now that his death feels like a non sequitur. My first child was stillborn. I want people to know but I don't want to say it aloud. People don't like to hear it but I think they might not mind reading it on a card. — Elizabeth McCracken

They wandered to the door like that, a pretzel of a dead boy and a not-psychic girl. — Maggie Stiefvater

A grumpy vampire is a homicidal vampire. Hungry ones were even worse. — MaryJanice Davidson

What we find in a dog is what we bring to a dog. — Joseph Monninger

Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged. — Timothy Keller

I was short on patience and long on not-in-the-fucking-mood. — N.R. Walker

And above all else, remember that the end of a movie (or a TV show, or a play, or a book) is never really the end. — Jen Calonita

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Now... all opposed to being rescued, raise your hands, otherwise, I'd like to get the fuck out of here


~Veiron, Her Demonic Angel ~ — Felicity Heaton

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing. — Thomas B. Macaulay

It was funny, Richard Sharpe thought, that there were no vultures in England. — Bernard Cornwell

Listen, Baroqueheat ... We live too long ... to stay in the same rut forever. — Minari Endou

You are what you are when the devil whistles. — Rick Acker