Brinkhoff Award Quotes & Sayings

They say our world used to be green. Our clouds used to be white. Our sun was always the right kind of light. — Tahereh Mafi

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head. — Carly Rae Jepsen

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability. — Rachel Hunter

I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a child's picture book. — Paula Fox

My respect for the law was diminishing with every exchange. Dickens was right. The law is an ass, and I was starting to think that people are asses as well. — Wendy Buonaventura

I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame. — Delia Sherman

Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose. — Sharon Gannon

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. — Elinor Lipman

I'm forever learning that prayer has everything to do with the Lord and nothing to do with my righteousness. Righteousness is imputed to us by faith. We merely need to seek Him with a pure heart. — Darlene Schacht

Dreams are great magicians. — Lucian Of Samosata

Tonight, you're going to learn to influence two elements simultaneously."
"I can't believe you ruined a bottle of avise wine."
"I told you magic was a conversation - "
"You also said it was an ocean," said Lila. "And a door, and once I think you even called it a cat - "
"Well, tonight we're calling it a conversation. We're simply adding another participant. The same power, different lines."
"I've never been able to pat my head and rub my stomach at the same time."
"Well then, this should be interesting. — Victoria Schwab

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view. — Marilynne Robinson

There are no cartoons about happy marriages. — Robert Mankoff

The walls and windows popped in staccato percussion as they relinquished the heat of the day. The soft chimes of the mantle clock supplied a beckoning melody. — Laura Rudacille