Delyte Montoya Quotes & Sayings

When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened. — Christina Baker Kline

Azel was an aficionado in killing and in chocolate cake. — E.J. Koh

My fear is if i lower my mask will people accept me? — Tina J. Richardson

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. — Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power. — Michael Pare

Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated. — Don DeLillo

Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up. — George Saunders

Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come. — Patricia Briggs

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it. — Brad Carson

To operate a machine one must operate like a machine. Using a machine to do what we cannot do, we find we must do what the machine does. — James P. Carse