Breawn Oliver Quotes & Sayings

Why do religions have edges?" asked Teresa ...
"God is here," said the printed text on the wall. "Yes," said Sophie. "But," she asked, "isn't He everywhere? Then why do they make Him little?" And she thought of those edges, pressing against each other, hurting, jarring, offending, barring one human being from another, shutting away their understanding and their souls.
Yet if you have no edges, thought Sophie, how lonely, how drifting, you must consent to be. — Rumer Godden

Change is constant, and we have to evolve or we wind up bitter and resentful, wishing to be with ghosts instead of the living. — Nancy K. Duplechain

The beliefs are almost always the same; it's just that the histories are different. Everybody wants to believe
in a higher power. Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that. — David Levithan

A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team. — Lou Piniella

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. — Annie Proulx

Man always behave like a snail on the railway! He thinks he has infinite time and moves accordingly, with the speed of unbelievable and nerve-wracking slowness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your first novel is like your first relationship. You won't really understand the decisions you make until years later ... And you'll probably screw up the ending ... First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing. First novels are the same way ... You do the best you can. But remember, it's not going to be the most polished novel you ever write, or the wisest, or the best-selling. That would be a shame, after all, to peak with your first. — Scott Westerfeld